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 The Crib Garden Moths

Since we have moved here we have been using a home made Skinner moth trap to record the moths in the garden.  This is our up to date list although there are always a few waiting to be identified.  This page is updated whenever new species are found.

 

SOME OF OUR RECENT SPECIES (August/September 2009)
Yellow-tail
Magpie
Purple Thorn
Centre-barred Sallow
Rosy Rustic
Silver Y

 

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.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 
 

Garden Tiger

Leopard Moth

Scalloped Oak

Large Emerald

Burnished Brass

Chinese Character

 

           © Text and photographs Jenny Steel 2009