Moth Survey results - 07/07/2026

We had a total of 450 individual moths, which made up 65 species in the moth trap this morning. 

A selection of the moths are available to view at our welcome desk today. Visit us next Tuesday morning from 7am if you would like to join staff in identifying moths from our light trap. If you are a WWT member you can show your card to the moth guide and gain early access to the reserve.

1. Uncertain
2. Gold Spot
3. Common Wainscot
4. Poplar Hawkmoth
5. Dog's Tooth
6. Rosy Rustic
7. Lime Speck Pug
8. Common Rustic
9. Double Lobed
10. Large Fruit Tree Tortrix
11. Scarce Footman
12. White Satin
13. Dwarf Cream Wave
14. The Clay
15. Mother of Pearl
16. Brown Veined Wainscot
17. Ringed China Mark
18. Tree Lichen Beauty
19. Dewick Plusia
20. Nutmeg
21. Canary Shoulder Thorn
22. Dingy Footman
23. Setaceous Hebrew Character
24. Least Carpet
25. Dingy Shears
26. Mottled Rustic
27. Turnip Moth
28. Webb's Wainscot
29. Dun Bar
30. Elephant Hawkmoth
31. Mouse Moth
32. Pale Prominent
33. Buff Tip
34. Blood Vein
35. Agapeta hamana
36. Ruby Tiger
37. Bright Line Brown Eye
38. Spectacle
39. Yponomeula Species
40. Small Rivulet
41. Beet Armyworm
42. Cloaked Minor
43. Silver Y
44. Smoky Wainscot
45. Willow Beauty
46. Fen Wainscot
47. Knot Grass
48. Common Footman
49. Clouded Border
50. Latticed Heath
51. Early Thorn
52. Nut Tree Tussock
53. White point
54. Buff Ermine
55. Least Yellow Underwing
56. Dusky Sallow
57. Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing
58. Dark Barred Twin Spot Carpet
59. Garden Grass Veneer
60. Defoliating Hemlock Moth
61. Endotricha flammealis
62. Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing
63. Large Yellow Underwing
64. Dark Arches
65. The Rustic

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