MOTHS - Noctuidae

There are quite a lot of pictures on this page, for help finding individual species see the MOTH INDEX

NOTE: Im not an expert + most of these have been IDd just by flicking through the book + looking at the pictures if anyone notices any that are wrong could you please let me know!! Thanks ... mattslaymaker@hotmail.co.uk

TURNIP MOTH

HEART + CLUB

HEART + DART

DARK SWORD-GRASS

SHUTTLE-SHAPED DART

THE FLAME

FLAME SHOULDER

LARGE YELLOW UNDERWING

LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING

BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING

LESSER BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING

LEAST YELLOW UNDERWING

PEARLY UNDERWING

SMALL SQUARE-SPOT

SETACEOUS HEBREW CHARACTER

DOUBLE SQUARE-SPOT

SIX-STRIPED RUSTIC

SQUARE-SPOT RUSTIC

GREAT BROCADE

NUTMEG

CABBAGE MOTH

DOT MOTH

BRIGHT-LINE BROWN-EYE

VARIED CORONET

CLAY

DELICATE

SMOKY WAINSCOT

COMMON WAINSCOT

SPRAWLER

DEEP BROWN DART

BLACK RUSTIC

BLAIR'S SHOULDER KNOT

GREEN-BRINDLED CRESCENT

BRINDLED GREEN

FEATHERED RANUNCULUS

SATELLITE

CHESTNUT

BRICK

RED-LINE QUAKER

YELLOW-LINE QUAKER

BEADED CHESTNUT

CENTRE-BARRED SALLOW

LUNAR UNDERWING

BARRED SALLOW

PINK-BARRED SALLOW

SALLOW

POPLAR GREY

SYCAMORE

DAGGER SP. (DARK or GREY)

KNOT GRASS

MARBLED BEAUTY

COPPER UNDERWING

MOUSE MOTH

BROWN RUSTIC

STRAW UNDERWING

ANGLE SHADES

OLIVE

DINGY SHEARS

DUN-BAR

DARK ARCHES

LIGHT ARCHES

DUSKY BROCADE

RUSTIC-SHOULDER KNOT

MINOR SP. (MARBLED/RUFOUS/TAWNY MARBLED)

CLOAKED MINOR

COMMON RUSTIC

(PRESUMED) LESSER COMMON RUSTIC

SMALL WAINSCOT

DUSKY SALLOW

FLOUNCED RUSTIC

EAR MOTH

ROSY RUSTIC

FROSTED ORANGE

BROWN-VEINED WAINSCOT

UNCERTAIN

VINE'S RUSTIC

MOTTLED RUSTIC

PALE MOTTLED WILLOW

SCARCE BORDERED STRAW

BORDERED STRAW

SCARCE SILVER-LINES

BURNISHED BRASS (left - f.aurea, right - f.juncta)

SILVER Y

SPECTACLE

RED UNDERWING

HERALD

BEAUTIFUL HOOK-TIP

STRAW DOT

SNOUT

FAN-FOOT

reference - Field Guide to the Moths of Gt Britain + Ireland, P Waring, M Townsend + R Lewington, BWP, 2003

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