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Yellow-tail |
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| Magpie |
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| Purple
Thorn |
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Centre-barred Sallow |
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| Rosy
Rustic |
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| Silver
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Making your garden
a good habitat for moths
You can encourage moths to your garden by
growing a selection of good nectar plants for them including honeysuckle,
evening primrose, petunias, buddleia, night scented stock and
campion. Growing some larval food plants is also really
important. Most caterpillars feed on our native plants, both
herbaceous wildflowers and shrubs and trees. Growing some
wildflowers and having a hedge of hawthorn and other wild shrubs will
encourage some of these beautiful insects to your garden.
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OUR LIST SO FAR:
Angle shades
Barred straw
Beaded chestnut
Beautiful golden Y
Beautiful hook-tip
Blood vein
Bright-line brown-eye
Brimstone
Brown china mark
Brown-line bright-eye
Brown silver line
Buff arches
Buff ermine
Burnished brass
Campion
Canary shouldered thorn
Centred-barred
Sallow
Chestnut
Chinese character
Cinnabar
Clouded bordered brindle
Clouded drab
Clouded silver
Common carpet
Common emerald
Common footman
Common marbled carpet
Common quaker
Common rustic
Common swift
Common wainscot
Common white wave
Copper underwing
Dark arches
Dot moth
Double striped pug
Dunbar
Dusky thorn
Early thorn
Elephant hawk-moth
Feathered gothic
Flame
Flame carpet
Flame shoulder
Garden dart
Garden pebble
Garden tiger
Ghost moth
Green carpet
Heart and dart
Hebrew character
Hummingbird hawkmoth
Iron prominent
July high flyer
Large emerald
Large yellow underwing
Least yellow underwing
Leopard moth
Lesser broad bordered
yellow underwing
Light arches
Light emerald
Lobster moth
Lunar marbled brown
Lunar underwing
Magpie
Marbled minor
May highflyer
Middle-barred minor
Mother of pearl
Muslin footman
Muslin moth
Nut tree tussock
Oak tree pug
Old lady
Pale brindled beauty
Pale tussock
Pebble prominent
Peppered moth
Phoenix
Plain golden Y
Poplar hawk moth
Purple thorn
Puss moth
Red twin spot carpet
Red underwing
Riband wave
Ruby tiger
Pebble prominent
Sallow kitten
Scalloped
hazel
Scalloped oak
Scorched carpet
Setaceous Hebrew
character
Shaded broad-bar
Shoulder stripe
Shoulder striped wainscot
Shuttle-shaped dart
Silver ground carpet
Silver Y
Single-dotted wave
Six-striped rustic
Small angle shades
Small emerald
Small magpie
Small mottled willow
Small phoenix
Small quaker
Smoky wainscot
Snout
Spectacle
Spruce carpet
Square-spot rustic
Straw dot
Swallow tailed moth
Tawny barred angle
Treble lines
Triple spotted clay
True lovers knot
Twenty plume moth
Twin spot carpet
Twin spot pug
Udea lutealis
White ermine
Willow beauty
Yellow-tail
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Garden
Tiger |
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Leopard
Moth
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Scalloped Oak
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Large Emerald
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Burnished
Brass |
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Chinese Character
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