Species
List 2010 – Last updated 02/03/10
(most recent additions in red text)
TOTAL
SPECIES RECORDED
23
(Target for 2010 is 812 –
total was 811 in 2009, 766 in 2008 & 714 in 2007)
Please note: Caterpillars, eggs and pupae of moths are included in
the UTB Moth Species Count, so please
keep your eyes open for these other life stages. Some moths, such as
the Striped Lychnis,
are rarely seen in the adult form but can be found quite easily as
caterpillars. The Species Count
will only be increased by one even if all 4 life stages of a moth have
been found during the year.
Macros = 17, Micros =6
Blue-bordered Carpet Moth (eggs 28/01/10)
Chestnut
December Moth
Dotted Border
Dotted Chestnut
Double-striped Pug
Drinker (caterpillar 28/01/10)
Early Moth
Green-brindled Crescent (egg 29/01/10)
March Moth
Mottled Umber
Oak Beauty
Pale Brindled Beauty
Satellite
Small
Brindled Beauty
Spring Usher
Winter Moth
Acleris
hastiana
Agonopterix
heracliana
Esperia sulphurella
Mompha
jurassicella
Plodia
interpunctella (Indian Meal
Moth)
Tortricodes alternella