Moth survey Results - 30/06/2026

We had a total of 302 individual moths, which made up 56 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. Bright Straw
2. Buff Tip
3. Common Footman
4. Latticed Heath
5. Buff Ermine
6. Dusky Sallow
7. Brown Tail
8. Common Emerald
9. Ruby Tiger
10. Poplar Grey
11. Lesser Yellow Underwing
12. Small Rivulet
13. Bright Line Brown Eye
14. Lime Spec Pug
15. Crambus Perlella
16. Lesser Cream Wave
17. Epiblema Foenella
18. Elephant Hawkmoth
19. Poplar Hawkmoth
20. Riband Wave
21. Privet Hawkmoth
22. Least Carpet
23. Common Wave
24. Smokey Wainscot
25. Spectacle
26. Garden Grass Veneer
27. Dwarf Cream Wave
28. Cream Bordered Green Pea
29. Dark Arches
30. Silver Y
31. Sitochroa Vorticalis
32. Heart and Dart
33. Heart and Club
34. Bird Cherry Ermine
35. The Clay
36. Pale Prominent
37. Brown Line Bright Eye
38. Nutmeg
39. Setaceous Hebrew Character
40. Common White Wave
41. Fen Wainscot
42. Refoliating Hemlock Moth
43. Mottled Rustic
44. Common Wainscot
45. The Uncertain
46. Eyed Hawk Moth
47. Willow Beauty
48. White Satin
49. Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing
50. Agriphila Straminella
51. Large Yellow Underwing
52. Catoptria Pinella
53. Satalitte
54. Small Magpie
55. Blood Vein
56. Yponomeula Spec

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