British Moths - Small
Small moths - mainly "micro" moths but some micro moths included on previous page and some macro
(eg Footmen) on this one.
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English common names shown where available; where not, scientific names shown.
Mint Moth - Golden
White Plume
Beautiful Plume
Common Plume
Plume - Platyptilia
Spindle Ermine
Bird-cherry Ermine
Crimson Speckled
Rosy Footman
Scarce Footman
Common Footman
Dingy Footman
Buff Footman
Orange Footman
Nettle-tap
Straw Dot
Vestal
Indian Meal Moth
Meal Moth
Rosy Tabby
Synaphe punctalis
Wax Moth
Bee Moth (m)
Bee Moth (f)
Green Longhorn Fairy
Green Longhorn Fairy
Yellow-barred Lh Fairy
Sulphur Tubic
Variable Smudge
Rosy-striped Knot-horn
Udea olivalis
Rusty Dot Pearl
Sitochroa verticalis
Double-striped Tabby
Uresiphita gilvata
Brown/Common Grey
Meadow Grey
Baseline Grey
Small Grey
Little Grey
Grey
Marsh Grey
Grass-veneers
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Crambus lathoniellus
Crambus perlella
Crambus silvella
Agriphila tristella
Agriphila straminella
Agriphila selasella
Agriphila geniculea
Agriphila inquinatella
Waste Grass Veneer
Rush Veneer
Rush Veneer
Water Veneer
20 Plume
Drab Looper
Latticed Heath
Double-striped Pug
Marsh Pug
V-pug
Green Pug
Foxglove Pug
Mottled Pug
Grey Pug
Common Pug
Pimpinel Pug
Pug
Green Oak Roller
Carcina quercana
Agapeta hamana
Sulphur Knapweed
Dark Strawberry Tortrix
Isotrias rectifasciana
Pea Moth
Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix
Chequered Fruit-tree T.
Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix
Lozotaenia fosterana
Lt Brown Apple Moth m
Lt Brown Apple Moth f
Rhomboid Tortrix
Maple Button
Acleris laterana
Acleris ferrugana
Acleris notana?
Aethes rubigana
Carnation Tortrix
Variegated Golden T.
Diamond-back Marble
Eucosma cana
Dichrorampha vancouverana
Clepsis consimilana
Timothy Tortrix
Plum Tortrix
Gypsonoma sociana
Epiblema cynosbatella
Epiblema sp.
Epiblema sp.
Apotomis betuletana
Pammene regiana
Pammene populana
Hollyhock Seed
Grapholita jungiella
Grapholita internana
Beech moth?
Bramble Shoot
Cochylimorpha straminea
Cyclamen Tortrix?
Aleimma loeflingiana
Brindled tortrix
Ruddy Streak
Mompha epilobiella
Garden Mompha
Elachista apicipunctella
Syncopacma larseniella
Triaxomera parasitella
Clothes Moth (Cmn)
Large Pale Clothes Moth
Case-bearing Clothes
Brown-dotted Clothes Moth
Brown House-moth
White-shouldered House
Monopis obviella
Diamond-back
Calybites phasianipennella
Small Dingy Tubic
Metalampra italica
March Dagger
Luquetia lobella
Blastobasis adustella
Blastodacna hellerella
Cmn. Oak Purple
Horse Chestnut Leaf M.
Argyresthia goedartella
Phyllonorycter oxyacanth.
Oegoconia quadripuncta
Spuleria flavicaput
Epichnopterix plumella
Coleophora hemerobiella
Maple Slender
Case-bearer moths
various leaf miners
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Photos by Elizabeth Barrett unless stated otherwise on page.