Macros

Macros - the majority of these have been trapped or seen in Exmouth, but a few were photographed in my early trapping days at Rockbeare, east Devon. The majority of the French species were found at 'wash-block' lights on a campsite near Bolene, in the Provence region of southern France.
Macro - 553 species (Exmouth garden - 337).
Moths total (macros + micros - 844). Exmouth garden total (macros + micros) - 526.


Ghost Moth - female - Rockbeare 1/7/06.


Ghost Moth (male) - Exmouth garden 26/6/17.
 

Orange Swift (male) - Exmouth garden 11/8/22.
 
 
Orange Swift (female) - Exmouth garden 5/9/17.
 

Common Swift (male) - Exmouth garden.

 
 Map-winged Swift - trapped by Martin at Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare 5/6/18.
 

Leopard Moth - Exmouth garden 19/7/22.


Forester agg (on wild Thyme) - Stock Hill, Somerset 22/6/19 (presumed Cistus Forester).


  Cistus Forester - Martin Down, Hants 26/6/21. Note tiny size compared to composite.


Forester - near Dorchester 19/6/23. Note size next to Five-spot Burnet.


 Forester - near Dorchester 19/6/23.


Burnet Moth sp (probably Six-spot) - Bystock 19/6/18.
 

Six-spot Burnet - Castle Lane, Exmouth 17/7/22.


Five-spot Burnet.


Five-spot Burnet - West Lodge, Exmouth 6/7/18.


Syntomis mogadorensis - Agadir, Morocco April 2014.


Mediterranean Burnet Zygaena occitanica - Provence 3/8/08 - rescued from the pool by Babs!


The Amah - Dysauxes famula Pula, Croatia 5/8/17.


Famulus - Dysauxes punctata Provence 11/8/06.


Palm Moth - Provence August 09.


Lunar Hornet Moth - Castle Lane, Exmouth 17/7/22.


Lunar Hornet Moth - Castle Lane, Exmouth. The second of two to lure on 17/7/22.


Currant Clearwing - Topsham (Tim Worfolk's garden) 16/6/18.



Yellow-legged Clearwing - Topsham 29/6/18. To VES lure.


Yellow-legged Clearwing - Topsham - to VES lure, 25/6/19.


Orange-tailed Clearwing - Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset (to VES lure) 30/6/18.


Red-tipped Clearwing - river Otter 22/6/23. One of several to 'for' lure around 2pm, in fine weather.


Red-tipped Clearwing - river Otter 22/6/23. A different individual to the above.


Six-belted Clearwing (female?) - netted between Mudbank and west Lodge, Exmouth 5/8/18.


Six-belted Clearwing - Berry Head, Devon 17/7/21. To Thrift Clearwing lure.


Six-belted Clearwing - near Weymouth, Dorset 19/6/23.


Thrift Clearwing - Soar Mill Cove, Devon 11/6/22. To Thrift/Raspberry lure.



Parahypopta caestrum - Provence 27/7/09.


December Moth - Exmouth garden 12/11/22.
 

 Pale Eggar - Rockbeare 3/9/06.
 
 
Small Eggar - Rockbeare 6/4/07 - my first and only record to date.
 

Lackey Moth caterpillar - Bournemouth seafront 30/5/22.
 

Lackey - Exmouth garden 28/6/18. Common in Exmouth.
 

 Oak Eggar - Exmouth garden 7/8/19. Regular in Exmouth.
 
 
Fox Moth caterpillar - Woodbury Common September 2019.
 
 
Fox Moth (male) - Lympstone Common 28/5/17.
 
 
Fox Moth (female) - Saint Hill, Devon (trapped by MW) 31/5/19.
 

Pine-tree Lappet - Provence August 2016.


Drinker caterpillar 15/5/21.


 Drinker (male) - Exmouth garden 15/7/19. Common in Exmouth.


Drinker (female) - Exmouth garden 20/7/22.


Cork-oak Lappet - Provence 21/7/09.


Lappet - Rockbeare.


Emperor Moth (male) - to lure on East Budleigh Common 20/5/18.


Scalloped Hook-tip - Rockbeare 24/7/06.


Oak Hook-tip - Rockbeare 27/8/06.


Oak Hook-tip - Exmouth garden 10/8/15.


Barred Hook-tip - Saint Hill, near Kentisbeare 22/8/17 - trapped by MW.


Pebble Hook-tip - Exmouth garden 9/8/20.


Chinese Character - Exmouth garden 15/7/22.


Peach Blossom - Exmouth garden 18/6/22.


Buff Arches - Exmouth garden 25/6/20. 


Figure of Eighty - Exmouth garden 18/6/23. Regular in Exmouth.


Common Lutestring - Exmouth garden 20/7/22.


Yellow Horned - trapped Saint Hill by MW 16/3/18.


Frosted Green - Exmouth garden 15/4/20 - first garden record.


March Moth - Saint Hill nr Kentisbeare 05/4/21. Trapped by MW.


Rest Harrow - Provence 26/7/08.


Grass Emerald - East Budleigh Common 23/6/06.


Large Emerald - trapped Bystock.


Blotched Emerald - Rockbeare 8/6/07. The only one I've seen to date.


Eucrostes indigenata - Provence August 2016.


Common Emerald - Exmouth garden 31/7/22. Common in Exmouth.


Phaiogramma etruscaria - Provence.


  Small Grass Emerald - Woodbury Common 28/5/17. Good numbers present on the pebbled heaths.


Small Emerald - Exmouth garden 23/6/23.


Little Emerald - near Blackhill Quarry 8/6/20.


Mocha - Exmouth garden 31/7/22.


Birch Mocha - Rockbeare. My one and only record to date.
 
 
Blair's Mocha - Provence August 2016.


Blair's Mocha - Exmouth garden 12/10/23. First garden record.


Jersey Mocha - trapped by Nick, in Budleigh 16/8/22.


Jersey Mocha - Exmouth garden 22/8/22. First garden record.


Maiden's Blush - Exmouth garden 24/7/23.


Clay Triple-lines - trapped near Kentisbeare by MW 22/6/17.


Clay Triple-lines (2nd brood) - Exmouth 24/8/17. First garden record.


Cyclophora suppunctaria - Provence 31/7/08.


Blood-vein - Exmouth garden 19/5/20. Common in Exmouth.


Ecleora solieraria - Provence August 2016.


Middle Lace Border Scopula decorata - Provence August 2006.


Lace Border Scopula ornata - Provence.


Mediterranean Lace Border Scopula submutata - Provence 4/8/06.


Tawny Wave - Provence August 2016.


 Mullein Wave - Exmouth garden 21/7/18. Occasional in Exmouth.
 
 
Pale Mullein Wave - Scopula incanata Provence 2016.
 

Small Blood-vein - Exmouth garden 17/7/19. Common in Exmouth.


Lesser Cream Wave - Emsworthy, Dartmoor 3/7/23..


Cream Wave - Squabmoor 29/5/19.


Bright Wave - Provence 28/7/08.


Least Riband Wave Idaea rubraria - Provence August 2016.


Least Carpet - Exmouth garden. Occasional in Exmouth.


Dotted Border Wave or Rambur's Wave - Provence August 2016.


Milliere's Wave Idaea alyssumata - Provence.


Suffused Wave Idaea subsaturata - Provence 22/7/09.


Iberian Wave Idaea belemiata - Provence 20/7/09.


Small Fan-footed Wave - Exmouth garden 17/7/23.


Dwarf Cream Wave - Exmouth garden 24/6/18. Common in Exmouth.


Variable Wave - Idaea infirmaria Provence 25/7/08.


Chequered Wave Idaea moniliata - Provence 21/7/09.


Cream-fringed Wave Idaea distinctaria - Kefalonia July 2019. Size as Small Dusty Wave.


Small Dusty Wave - Exmouth garden 2/6/17. Common in Exmouth.


Single-dotted Wave - Exmouth garden 6/7/18. Common in Exmouth.


Satin Wave - Exmouth garden 30/7/22.


Treble Brown Spot - Exmouth garden 14/6/23. 


Small Scallop - Rockbeare.


Lustrous Least Carpet Idaea filicata - Provence August 2016.


Riband Wave f.remutata - Exmouth garden 2/7/23.


Riband Wave - Exmouth garden 1/7/23.


Riband Wave aberration - Exmouth garden 1/7/20.


Portland Ribbon Wave - Exmouth garden 29/7/22.


Lythria purpuraria - Provence 4/8/08.


Vestal - Exmouth garden 18/10/18.


Oblique Carpet - trapped at Sandygate 19/8/07.


Gem - Exmouth garden 25/7/17.
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Flame Carpet - Exmouth garden 8/8/20.


Red Twin-spot Carpet - Exmouth garden 20/4/20.


Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet - Exmouth garden 7/8/19.


Silver-ground Carpet - Exmouth garden 18/6/22.


Garden Carpet - Exmouth garden 25/4/20.


Chalk Carpet - Fontmell Down, Dorset 9/8/21.


Shaded Broad-bar - Exmouth garden 24/7/17.


Lead Belle - nr Cold East Cross, Dartmoor 3/6/06.


July Belle - Lympstone Common 11/6/17.


Ruddy Carpet - Exmouth garden 09/5/20.


Royal Mantle - Exmouth 27/6/17. First garden record.


Small Argent and Sable - Dartmoor 29/6/23.


Common Carpet - Exmouth garden 10/7/19. Common in Exmouth.


Wood Carpet - Gore Lane, Exmouth 24/6/16 - colony along Gore Lane.


Galium Carpet - Gore Lane, Exmouth 6/8/15. Colony along Gore Lane.


Yellow Shell - Exmouth garden 24/7/19. Common.
 
 
Mallow - Rockbeare 11/10/06. My only record to date.
 
 
Shoulder Stripe - Rockbeare 7/4/07.


Streamer - Exmouth garden 24/4/20.


Water Carpet - Exmouth garden 13/4/20.


Purple Bar - Exmouth garden 9/5/20.


Phoenix - Exmouth garden 11/7/19.


Chevron - trapped in Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare by MW.


Northern Spinach - Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare 3/7/17.


Barred Straw - Exmouth garden 26/6/18. Common in Exmouth.


Small Phoenix - Exmouth garden 3/8/22.


Red-green Carpet - Exmouth garden.


Red-green Carpet - Exmouth garden 10/5/20.


Dark Marbled Carpet (above and below) - Saint Hill near Kentisbeare - trapped by MW 7/8/19.



Common Marbled Carpet - Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.


Common Marbled Carpet - Exmouth garden 24/4/20.


Common Marbled Carpet - Exmouth garden 21/5/20.


Barred Yellow - Exmouth garden 1/7/20.


Pine Carpet - Exmouth garden.


Grey Pine Carpet - Sandygate 24/9/06.


Grey Pine Carpet - trapped East Budleigh Common with NP 4/10/19.


Spruce Carpet - Exmouth garden 24/10/22.


Cypress Carpet - Exmouth garden 8/10/19.


Blue-bordered Carpet - Exmouth 2/7/17. First garden record.


Broken-barred Carpet - Exmouth 5/6/21.


Mottled Grey - Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare 5/4/21. Trapped by MW.


Green Carpet - Exmouth garden 11/9/22.


July Highflyer -Exmouth garden 2/7/22.
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July Highflyer - Exmouth 24/6/18.


July Highflyer - Exmouth garden 3/7/22.


May Highflyer - Rockbeare 4/5/07.


Small Waved Umber - Provence 29/7/08.


Fern - Exmouth garden 22/6/22.


Pretty Chalk Carpet - Exmouth garden 14/6/23.


Scallop Shell - Exmouth garden 12/7/22.


Cloaked Carpet - Exmouth garden 9/7/16.


Sharp-angled Carpet - Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare 12/7/18.


November Moth agg - Exmouth garden 24/10/22.


November Moth agg - trapped at Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare by MW on 22/10/18.


Rivulet - Exmouth garden 30/5/17.


Small Rivulet - Exmouth garden 31/7/22.


Sandy Carpet - Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.

 
Slender Pug - Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.


Maple Pug - Exmouth garden 29/7/22.


Haworth's Pug - Exmouth garden 9/8/22. Common in Exmouth.


Toadflax Pug - Exmouth garden 28/6/18.


Foxglove Pug - Exmouth garden.


Mottled Pug - Exmouth garden 28/5/23.


Lime-speck Pug - Exmouth garden 24/7/22. Common in Exmouth.


 Freyer's Pug - Exmouth garden 14/6/23. Common in Exmouth.


Wormwood Pug - Exmouth garden 18/6/23.


Currant Pug - Exmouth garden 23/7/18.


Common Pug - Exmouth garden 25/4/20.


Common Pug - Exmouth garden 14/6/23.


White-spotted Pug - Exmouth garden 24/7/22.


Obscure Pug Eupithecia silenicolata - Provence 22/7/09.


Grey Pug - Exmouth garden 05/7/19. Common in Exmouth.


Bordered Pug - Exmouth garden 13/7/15.
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Shaded Pug - Sandygate.


Plain Pug - Exmouth garden 19/7/22. Only my second record.


Ochreous Pug - Exmouth 4/6/22. First garden record.


Narrow-winged Pug - Exmouth garden 21/7/18.
  

Golden-rod Pug - Exmouth 27/7/21. Second garden record.


Golden-rod Pug - Exmouth garden 8/8/22. Third garden record.
 

 Brindled Pug - Exmouth garden 13/4/20.
 

 Oak-tree Pug - Exmouth garden 13/4/20.
 

Cypress Pug - Exmouth garden 3/8/22. Common in Exmouth.
 
 
Dwarf Pug - West Hill 1/6/07.
 

 V-Pug - Exmouth garden 28/6/18. Common in Exmouth.
 

 Green Pug - Exmouth garden 17/6/23. Common in Exmouth.


 Double-striped Pug - Exmouth garden 21/7/19. Common in Exmouth.
 

Treble-bar - trapped at Sandygate 19/8/07.

 
Presumed Treble-bar - Provence 23/7/09.
 
 
Treble-bar - Blackhill Quarry 3/8/20.
 
 
Chimney Sweeper - Stock Hill, Somerset 22/6/19.
 
 
Blomer's Rivulet - Exmouth 6/8/19 - first garden record.
 

 Dingy Shell - Exmouth 24/6/19. My first garden record.


Small White Wave - West Hill.
  

 Small Yellow Wave - Exmouth garden 22/6/17.
 

 Waved Carpet - Exmouth 24/7/19. My first garden record.
 

 Seraphim - Exmouth garden 19/5/20.
 
 
Early Tooth-striped.
 

Small Seraphim - Exmouth garden 19/5/20.


 Yellow-barred Brindle - Exmouth garden 18/8/19.
 

 Magpie - Exmouth garden 21/7/19.
 

Clouded Border - Exmouth garden 18/6/20. Common in Exmouth.
 

Scorched Carpet - Exmouth garden 14/6/23.
 
 
Dorset Cream Wave - Provence 26/7/08.
 
 
Dorset Cream Wave - Provence 3/8/08.
 

Sharp-angled Peacock - Exmouth garden 3/8/22.
 

Tawny-barred Angle - Exmouth 16/8/22.
 
 
Tawny-barred Angle - f. nigrofulvata - West Hill.
 
 
Rhoptria asperaria - Provence August '06.
 
 
Latticed Heath - Provence 25/7/08.
 
 
Isturgia arenacearia - Italy 9/8/09.


Brown Silver-line - Exmouth garden 2/7/15.
 

 Brown Silver-line - near Wright's Lane 28/5/17.
 
 
Tamarisk Peacock - Marina di Bibona, Italy 9/8/09.
 

 Scorched Wing - Exmouth garden 31/5/17.
 

Horse Chestnut - Exmouth garden 11/9/22.
  

 Brimstone - Exmouth garden 12/4/20. Common in Exmouth.
 

Bordered Beauty - Exmouth garden 19/7/22.
 
 
Speckled Yellow - Haldon Forest 10/5/06.
 .

 Lilac Beauty - Exmouth garden 3/7/17.
 

 August Thorn - trapped Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare by MW 1/9/17.
 

Canary-shouldered Thorn - Exmouth garden 24/7/22.
 

Dusky Thorn - Exmouth garden 28/7/22..
 

September Thorn - Exmouth garden 30/7/22.
 
 
Early Thorn - Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.
 
 
Early Thorn - 2nd brood Exmouth garden 6/7/18.
 
 
Lunar Thorn - Exmouth. First garden record.
 

Purple Thorn - Exmouth garden 20/7/22.
 

Scalloped Hazel - Exmouth garden 29/5/20.
 

Scalloped Oak - Exmouth garden 24/6/22.
 .

 Swallow-tailed Moth - Exmouth garden 22/6/18. Common in Exmouth.
 

Feathered Thorn - Exmouth garden 24/10/22.
  
 
Pale Brindled Beauty - Rockbeare 18/2/07.
 

 Brindled Beauty - Exmouth garden 20/4/20.
 
 
Oak Beauty - Rockbeare 18/2/07.
 

Peppered Moth - Exmouth garden 12/8/22.
 

Spring Usher - Rockbeare 19/2/07.

 
 Spring Usher - Rockbeare 18/2/07.
 
 
Dotted Border - Exmouth garden 28/12/15.
 

Mottled Umber - tapped Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare by MW 10/12/18.


Mottled Umber - Exmouth garden 21/11/20.
 

Waved Umber - Exmouth garden 09/5/20.
 

 Willow Beauty - Exmouth garden 21/7/19. Common in Exmouth.
 
 
Lydd Beauty - Provence 13/8/06.
 
 
Bordered or Plumed Grey - Provence 13/8/06.
 
 
 Tephronia oranaria - Provence 25/7/08.
 
 
    Dusky Carpet - Provence 20/7/09.
 

 Satin Beauty - Exmouth 9/7/19 first garden record.
 

Mottled Beauty - near Blackhill Quarry 8/6/20.
 
 
Pale Oak Beauty - Provence August 2016.
 

 Brussels Lace - Exmouth garden 25/6/23.
 
 
 Engrailed - Exmouth garden.
 
 
Engrailed - Exmouth garden.
 
 
 Square Spot - Bicton Common 17/5/18.

 
Unidentified sp - Provence 3/8/08.
 
 
Grey Birch - East Budleigh Common 23/5/20.
 
 
Common Heath - male - Woodbury Common 10/6/17.
 
 
Common Heath - female.
 

 Common White Wave - Exmouth garden 16/7/17.
 
 
Common Wave - Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.


White-pinion Spotted - near Shepton Mallet, Somerset 22/5/23.
 

 Clouded Silver - Exmouth garden 3/6/18.
 

Light Emerald - Exmouth garden.


Barred Red - Exmouth garden 9/7/23.
 
 
Yellow Belle - Orcombe Point, Exmouth 30/8/16.
 
 
Grass wave - Woodbury Common 6/6/16.
 

Convolvulus Hawkmoth - Exmouth garden.


Privet Hawkmoth - Exmouth garden.


Lime Hawkmoth caterpillar - Gipsy Lane, Exmouth 11/7/23.


Lime Hawkmoth - Exmouth garden 29/6/19.


Eyed Hawkmoth caterpillar - Exmouth Sept 2016.


Eyed Hawkmoth - Exmouth garden 10/6/18.


Poplar Hawkmoth caterpillar - Gore Lane 17/7/19.


Poplar Hawkmoth - Exmouth garden 4/5/20.


 Poplar Hawkmoth (female) - buff form - Exmouth garden 22/7/18.


Broad-bordered Bee Hawkmoth - Mont Ventoux 9/8/06.


Hummingbird Hawkmoth caterpillar - near the Lifeboat Station.

 
Hummingbird Hawkmoth - Orcombe Point.


Hummingbird Hawkmoth - Exmouth (front) garden 23/7/23.

 
Oleander Hawkmoth caterpillar - Cyprus August 1998.
 

Oleander Hawkmoth - found resting on the side of a building - Exeter Road primary school 17/10/23.


 
 Spurge Hawkmoth - Provence 16/8/06.
 
 
Bedstraw Hawkmoth - trapped in Budleigh by Nick 3/8/20.
  

Striped Hawkmoth - Exmouth garden 16/8/22.


Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar - Belle Vue Road, Exmouth August '23.
 
 
 Elephant Hawkmoth - Exmouth garden 7/7/23..
 

 Small Elephant Hawkmoth - Exmouth garden 24/6/19.
 

Puss Moth - Exmouth garden 5/6/22.
 

 Alder Kitten - Exmouth garden 30/5/20 - first garden record.
 

Sallow Kitten - Exmouth garden 30/5/20.
 
 
Alder and Sallow Kittens - Exmouth garden 30/5/20.
 
 
 Poplar Kitten - Provence August 2009.
 

 Iron Prominent - Exmouth garden 8/8/19.
 

 Pebble Prominent - Exmouth garden 8/6/22.
 
 
Lesser Swallow Prominent - Exmouth garden 4/7/19.
 

 Swallow Prominent - Exmouth garden 22/7/19.
 

Coxcomb Prominent - Exmouth garden 17/6/22.
 

 Pale Prominent - Exmouth garden 8/8/19.
 

 Marbled Brown - West Hill 19/5/07.
  
 
Lunar Marbled Brown - Exmouth garden 12/4/20.
 
 
 Small Chocolate-tip - Provence 5/8/08.
 

 Chocolate-tip - Exmouth garden 10/5/20.


Buff-tip caterpillar - Woodbury Common 22/9/21.
 

Buff-tip - Exmouth garden 28/6/23.
 

 Lobster Moth - Exmouth garden 21/6/17.
 
 
Tawny Prominent - Provence 5/8/08.
 
 
Figure of Eight - Rockbeare 10/10/06.
 
 
 Pine Processionary - Provence August 2016.
 

 Vapourer (male) - Exmouth garden 22/9/19.
 

Pale Tussock - Exmouth garden 17/5/20.
 
 
Ocneria rubea - female - Provence 7/8/08.
 
 
Brown-tail caterpillar.
 
 
Brown-tail - Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.


Yellow-tail Moth caterpillar - Duckpond, Exmouth June 2022.
 
 
Yellow-tail - Exmouth garden 10/7/23.
 

White Satin - Exmouth garden 2/7/22.
 

Black Arches - Exmouth garden 10/7/23.
 
 
Gypsy Moth - Provence 28/7/09.
 

  Rosy Footman - Exmouth garden 26/6/18.
 

 Muslin Footman - Exmouth garden 1/7/18.
 
 
Paidia rica - Provence 23/7/09.
  
 
Four-dotted Footman - Exmouth 27/6/19. First garden record.
 
 
Dotted Footman - near Chalon Sur Marne, France 20/8/06.
 

Orange Footman - Exmouth garden 5/6/22.


Dingy Footman - Exmouth garden 21/7/19.


Hoary Footman - Exmouth garden 15/8/22.


Pigmy Footman - Provence 7/8/06.
 
 
Presumed Eilema uniola - Provence 30/8/06. Noted as being c1cm in length.
 

Scarce Footman - Exmouth garden 30/6/22. Hindwing checked - a deep orange-yellow.
 

Buff Footman - Exmouth garden 16/7/22.
 
 
Common Footman - Exmouth garden 24/7/19.
 

Four-spotted Footman (female) - Exmouth garden 15/8/22.


Four-spotted Footman (male) - Exmouth garden 2/7/22.
 

 Feathered Footman - Pula, Croatia 30/7/17.
 
 
Speckled Footman - Provence August 2006.

 
Crimson Speckled - Orcombe Point, Exmouth 7/10/13. Rare immigrant.


Crimson Speckled - caught by day on the Maer, Exmouth 29/10/22.


Crimson Speckled - Orcombe Point 19/10/23. My third Exmouth record.


Wood Tiger - near Dorchester, Dorset 19/6/23.
 

 Garden Tiger - Rockbeare.
 
 
Cream-spot Tiger - Rockbeare 19/5/07.
 
 
Discrete Chaperon - Provence 16/8/06.
 

Clouded Buff - male - Bicton Common 12/6/17.
 
 
White Ermine - Rockbeare 24/5/07.
 
 
 Fall Webworm - Provence 16/8/06.


Buff Ermine caterpillar-  Exmouth garden 27/8/21.
 
 
Buff Ermine - Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.
 
 
Muslin Moth - Exmouth garden.
 

Ruby Tiger - Exmouth garden 31/7/22.
 

Jersey Tiger - Exmouth garden 13/8/22. Abberation on right.
 

 Scarlet Tiger - Exmouth garden 18/7/19.
 
 
Cinnabar Moth caterpillar - Millennium Wood, Exmouth 8/8/19.
 

Cinnabar - Exmouth garden 21/6/20.
 
 
Small Black Arches - Provence August 16.
  
 
Kent Black Arches - Exmouth garden 24/7/19.
 

Short-cloaked Moth - Exmouth garden 3/7/22.
 

Least Black Arches - Exmouth garden 3/6/18.
 
 
Meganola togatolalis - Provence August 2016.
 
 
Nola chlamitulalis - Provence 2016.

 
White-line Dart - Exmouth 21/7/19 - first for garden.


White-line Dart - Exmouth garden 2/8/22. Second garden record.


Garden Dart - Exmouth garden 22/7/22. Gen det. Confirmed by Barry Henwood and Phil Stirling. This is the first Devon record for 32 years!


Archer's Dart - Exmouth gareden 26/6/22.


 Turnip Moth - Exmouth garden 13/8/19.
 

 Heart and Club - Exmouth garden 20/6/18. Common in Exmouth.
 

 Heart and Dart - Exmouth garden 9/5/20.
 
 
Heart and Dart - Exmouth garden 28/6/18 - aberrant markings.
  
 
Crescent Dart - Exmouth garden 1/7/20.
 

 Dark Sword-grass - Exmouth garden. Immigrant. Trapped fairly regularly.
 
 
Chersotis cuprea - Mont Ventoux 9/8/06.
 
 
Shuttle-shaped Dart - Exmouth garden 12/4/20.
 
 
Great Dart - Provence.
 

Flame Shoulder - Exmouth garden 12/4/20.


Radford's Flame Shoulder - Exmouth 15/9/21. First garden record.


Radford's Flame Shoulder - Exmouth garden 20/10/23.
 

 Large Yellow Underwing - Exmouth garden 25/7/23.
 

 Lesser Yellow Underwing - Exmouth garden 24/7/23.
 

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (female) - Exmouth garden 18/7/17.


 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (male) - Exmouth garden 21/7/19.
 

  Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing - Exmouth garden 25/7/23.
 
 
Least Yellow Underwing - Exmouth garden 24/7/23.
 

 Autumnal Rustic 9/10/16 - trapped by Martin nr Kentisbeare.
 

 True Lover's Knot - Exmouth garden 9/7/19.
  

Pearly Underwing - Exmouth garden 21/11/20.


Ingrailed Clay - Exmouth garden 18/6/20.


Purple Clay - Exmouth garden 4/7/19.


Small Square Spot - Exmouth garden 16/8/14.


Setaceous Hebrew Character - Exmouth garden 21/8/14. Common in Exmouth.


Double Square-spot - Exmouth garden 24/6/22.


Neglected Rustic - trapped East Budleigh Common by Devon Moth Group 8/9/19.


Six-striped Rustic -Exmouth garden 29/7/22.


 Square-spot Rustic - Exmouth garden 3/8/22. Common in Exmouth.


Heath Rustic - trapped East Budleigh Common with NP 4/10/19.


Gothic.


Great Brocade - Rockbeare 26/8/07. Rare immigrant. (6th Devon record).


Green Arches.


Red Chestnut - Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare 5/4/21. Trapped by MW.
  

Beautiful Yellow Underwing - trapped Bystock 22/7/16.


Nutmeg.


Grey Arches - Exmouth garden 25/6/20.


White Colon - Exmouth 9/6/18. First garden record.


Cabbage Moth - Exmouth garden 3/8/19.


Dot Moth - Exmouth garden 25/6/23.


Broom Moth - Exmouth 18/6/17. First garden record.


Beautiful Brocade - Exmouth. First garden record.


Light Brocade - Exmouth 4/6/16. First garden record.


Pale-shouldered Brocade - West Hill 26/5/07.


Dog's Tooth - Seaton 2/8/19 - trapped by Steve Waite.


Bright-line Brown-eye - Exmouth garden 26/6/23. 


Splendid Brocade - Exmouth garden 20/7/22. First ever record.


Broad-barred White - Exmouth garden 8/7/17.


Small Ranunculus - Provence 14/8/06.


Campion - Exmouth 23/7/22. Second garden record.


Marbled Coronet - Rockbeare 26/8/07.


White Spot - Provence 23/7/09.
 

 Lychnis - Exmouth garden 31/5/17. Common in Exmouth.


Antler Moth - Bonnerville 10/8/09.


Pine Beauty - Exmouth garden 16/4/20.


Small Quaker - Exmouth garden.


Powdered Quaker - Exmouth garden 14/4/20.


Common Quaker - Exmouth garden 12/4/20.


Clouded Drab - Rockbeare 6/4/07.


Clouded Drab - Exmouth garden 13/4/20.


Clouded Drab - Exmouth garden 9/5/20.
 
 
Twin-spot Quaker - trapped by Martin at Saint Hill, near Kentisbeare April 2018.


Hebrew Character - Exmouth garden 12/4/20.


Double Line - Saint Hill near Kentisbeare 24/6/17.


Clay - Exmouth garden 26/6/18. Common in Exmouth.


White-point - Exmouth garden 24/8/22.
  

 Delicate - Exmouth garden 12/10/23.
 
 
Mythimna sicula - Provence 26/7/08.
 

Striped Wainscot - Exmouth garden 20/7/16.


Southern Wainscot - Exmouth garden 8/8/15 (above and below).

 

Smoky Wainscot - Exmouth garden 10/7/19. Common in Exmouth.


Common Wainscot - Exmouth garden 3/7/17.


Shore Wainscot - Exmouth 9/7/16. First garden record and only one to date.


L-album Wainscot - Exmouth garden 17/9/19.


White-speck - Exmouth garden 28/10/22. Scarce immigrant. Second garden record.


Obscure Wainscot - Exmouth garden 18/6/23.


Shoulder-striped Wainscot - Exmouth garden 23/5/22.


Cosmopolitan - Rockbeare 3/10/06. Rare immigrant.


Chamomile Shark - trapped by Nick (Exmouth) 6/5/18.


Shark - Exmouth garden.


Mullein Moth caterpillar - Exmouth 19/6/19.


Mullein - Exmouth garden 12/4/20.


Minor Shoulder-knot.


Sprawler - Rockbeare 8/11/06.


Deep-brown Dart - Rockbeare 20/9/06.


Black Rustic - Exmouth garden 25/9/21.


Tawny Pinion - trapped by MW at Saint Hill nr Kentisbeare 5/6/18. And below.


Note black line along trailing edge of wing. 


Pale Pinion - Exmouth 5/10/18. First garden record.


Grey Shoulder-knot - Rockbeare 9/11/06.


Blair's Shoulder-knot -Exmouth garden 30/10/14.


Early Grey - Exmouth garden 12/4/20.


Green-brindled Crescent.


Green-brindled Crescent - Exmouth garden 18/10/18.


Merveille du Jour - Exmouth garden 12/10/23.
 

 Oak Rustic - Exmouth garden 26/10/22. First garden record.
 

Brindled Green - Exmouth 19/9/19. First garden record.
 
 
Sombre Brocade - Exmouth garden - first ever record 12/9/19.
 

 Large Ranunculus - Exmouth garden 19/9/19.


Feathered Ranunculus - Exmouth garden 3/10/19.


Satellite - trapped Saint Hill near Kentisbeare by MW 4/10/18.


Satellite - trapped Saint Hill near Kentisbeare by MW 22/10/18.


Chestnut - Rockbeare 27/10/06.


Chestnut - Exmouth garden 18/10/18.


Dark Chestnut - Rockbeare 29/10/06.


Brick - Exmouth garden 9/10/19 - only my second individual.

 
Red-line Quaker - Exmouth garden 9/10/19.


Yellow-line Quaker - Exmouth garden 19/10/17.


Flounced Chestnut - trapped East Budleigh Common with NP 4/10/19.


Beaded Chestnut - Exmouth garden12/10/23.


Centre-barred Sallow - Exmouth garden September 2018.


Lunar Underwing - Exmouth garden 15/9/19. Common in Exmouth.


Orange Sallow - Exmouth 19/9/21. First garden record.


Barred Sallow - Exmouth garden 8/10/19.


Pink-barred Sallow - Exmouth garden 5/9/17.


Sallow - Exmouth garden.


Sallow - Exmouth garden 14/9/19.
 
 
Dusky-lemon Sallow - Exmouth garden 3/10/19. First ever record and only the 2nd Devon record since 1976 following one in 2018.


Poplar Grey - Exmouth garden 10/6/18.


Sycamore - Exmouth garden 02/7/19.


Miller - Exmouth garden.


Alder Moth - Rockbeare.


Grey Dagger caterpillar - Orcombe Point.


Grey or Dark Dagger - Exmouth garden.


Knot Grass caterpillar - West Lodge.


Knot Grass - Exmouth garden 7/8/19.


Coronet - Exmouth garden 3/7/22.


Oxicesta chamoenices/geographica - Provence 8/8/08.


Tree-lichen Beauty - Exmouth garden 24/7/23.


Marbled Green - Exmouth garden 22/7/19. Typical form.


Marbled Green - Exmouth garden 22/8/22. Olive-green frorm.


Copper Underwing - Exmouth garden 17/8/21.


Svennson's Copper Underwing - Exmouth garden 22/7/19 (above and below).



Mouse Moth - Rockbeare 30/8/07.


Old Lady - Exmouth garden 28/8/17.


Bird's Wing - Exmouth garden 17/6/20.


Brown Rustic - Rockbeare 18/6/06.


Straw Underwing - Kentisbeare, trapped by MW 11/8/20.


Small Angle Shades - Exmouth garden 20/6/18.


Angle Shades - Exmouth garden 15/4/20.


Pale-shouldered Cloud - Provence 4/8/08.


Double Kidney - Langres, France 10/8/09.


Olive - trapped Sandygate.


Dingy Shears - Rockbeare - my only record to date.


Lesser-spotted Pinion - Exmouth garden 13/8/22. First record. Below showing black underwing.



Dun-bar - Exmouth garden 13/8/22.


Lunar-spotted Pinion - trapped Sandygate 7/7/07.


Dark Arches - Exmouth garden 24/6/18. Very common in Exmouth.


Light Arches - Exmouth garden 18/6/23.


Clouded-bordered Brindle - Exmouth garden 24/6/19.


Clouded Brindle - Exmouth 29/6/19. First garden record.


Dusky Brocade - Exmouth garden 25/6/20.


Dusky Brocade - Exmouth garden 18/6/23.


Small Clouded Brindle - Rockbeare 1/6/07.


Slender Brindle - Saint Hill, near Kentisbeare 3/7/17.


Slender Brindle - Exmouth 18/7/17. First garden record.


Double Lobed - Exmouth 11/7/19. First garden record.


Minor agg - Exmouth garden 17/6/18.


Presumed Rufous Marbled Minor - Saint Hill 13/7/19.


Minor agg - presumed Rufous or Tawny Marbled Minor - Rockbeare 14/6/07.


Minor agg - Exmouth garden 9/5/20.


Middle-barred Minor - Exmouth garden 3/6/18.


Cloaked Minor - Exmouth garden 02/7/19.


Rosy Minor - trapped on Exminster Marshes 12/8/07.


Common/Lesser Common Rustic - Exmouth garden 18/8/19.


Common/Lesser Common Rustic agg - Exmouth garden 16/9/19.


Common/Lesser Common Rustic agg - Exmouth garden 28/7/22.


Common/Lesser Common Rustic agg - Exmouth garden 24/7/23.


Small Dotted Buff - Exmouth 3/7/17. First garden record.


Morris's Wainscot - near Culverhole Point, Axmouth 28/6/21.


Small Wainscot - Rockbeare 23/8/07.


Dusky Sallow - Exmouth garden 20/7/22. Second record.


Flounced Rustic - Exmouth garden 22/8/22.


Ear Moth - trapped Bystock 24/7/15.


Saltern Ear - Exmouth garden 19/7/22.

 
Ear Moth agg - Exmouth garden 19/7/22. Presumed all Saltern Ear.


Ear Moth agg - Exmouth garden 20/7/22.


 Saltern Ear - Exmouth garden 20/7/22.


Rosy Rustic - Exmouth garden 3/8/22.


Frosted Orange - Prawle Point 10/9/06.


Crescent - Exmouth 12/8/15. First garden record.


Twin-spotted Wainscot - Exmouth garden 24/7/23. And below.



Brown-veined Wainscot - trapped River Otter 7/8/20.


Brown-veined Wainscot - Exmouth garden 20/7/22. First garden record.


Bulrush Wainscot - trapped - Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare by MW.


Large Wainscot - Exmouth garden 6/11/22.


Fen Wainscot - Otter Estuary 29/7/20. Trapped by NP - one of two trapped.


Small Rufous - Exmouth garden 11/8/22.


Treble Lines - Exmouth garden 1/5/20.



Uncertain. Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.


Rustic - Rockbeare 25/6/08.


Rustic - Exmouth garden 21/7/19.


Vine's Rustic - Exmouth garden 3/6/18. Common in Exmouth.


Small Mottled Willow - Exmouth garden 30/7/22. An immigrant species. Occasional.


Mottled Rustic - Exmouth garden 26/6/16.


Caradrina gilva - Provence 13/8/06.


Clancy's Rustic - trapped Sandygate.


Pale Mottled Willow - Exmouth garden 13/4/20.


Silky Wainscot - Exmouth 19/6/17. First garden record and only record to date.


Porter's Rustic - Provence 26/7/08.


Anomalous - trapped East Budleigh Common with NP 4/10/19. My first ever.


Small Yellow Underwing - Orcombe Point, Exmouth 13/5/20.


Bordered Sallow - Exmouth garden 16/6/23.


Scarce Bordered Straw - Exmouth garden 10/7/23. Immigrant.


Marbled Clover - Provence August 2016.


Bordered Straw - Exmouth garden 24/6/22. Immigrant.


Purple Marbled - Provence 29/7/09.


Small Marbled - Exmouth 21/7/19 - Rare immigrant and garden first.


Eublemma candidana - Provence.


Eublemma pura - La Crau, Camargue 30/7/08.


Beautiful Marbled - Provence 2016.


Delightful Marbled Odice jucunda - Provence 2016.


Marbled White Spot - Exmouth garden 18/6/22.


Eutelia adulatrix - Provence 7/8/08.


Spotted Sulphur - near Langres, France 29/7/06.


Pale Shoulder - Pula, Croatia 30/7/17.


Cream-bordered Green Pea - Exmouth garden 13/8/22.


Scarce Silver-lines - Exmouth 29/6/19. First garden record.


Green Silverlines - Exmouth garden 20/7/22.


Nycteoline species - Provence 16/8/06.


Oak Nycteoline - Exmouth garden 11/7/19.


Oak Nycteoline - Exmouth garden 21/6/20.


Oak Nycteoline - Exmouth garden 6/7/17.


Oak Nycteoline - Exmouth garden 19/7/22.


Oak Nycteoline - Exmouth garden 24/7/22.


Calophasia opalina - Provence 26/7/08.


Antirrhinum Brocade Calophasia platyptera - Provence 13/8/06.


Nut-tree Tussock - Exmouth garden 9/7/23.


Golden Twin-spot - Provence, France 7/8/08.


Ni Moth - Exmouth garden 15/8/22.


'Cryptic' Burnished Brass - Exmouth garden 20/7/22.

 
Burnished Brass - Exmouth garden 10/7/19.


Dewick's Plusia - Exmouth garden 8/7/23. First garden record.


Gold Spot - Exmouth garden 11/8/19.


Silver Y - f.gammina on right - Exmouth garden 13/9/16. Common immigrant.


Silver Y - Exmouth garden 11/8/22.


Beautiful Golden Y - trapped by MW nr Kentisbeare 25/6/17.


Plain Golden Y - Exmouth garden.


Argentine Moth - Provence August 2016.


Dark Spectacle.


Spectacle - Rockbeare.


Spectacle and Dark Spectacle - Exmouth garden 5/9/17.

 
Clifden Nonpareil (above and below) - trapped by Nick in Budleigh 29/9/18.
 

Clifden Nonpareil - Exmouth 8/9/21. First garden record.
 

Red Underwing - Exmouth garden 18/8/19. Occasional in Exmouth.


Oak Yellow Underwing - Provence 30/7/09.


Catocala puerpera - Provence 2/8/08.


Minsmere Crimson Underwing Catocala conjuncta - Provence 13/8/06.
 

Dark Crimson Underwing (and below) - Exmouth garden (first record) 13/8/20.



 Passenger - Provence.
 
 
Mother Shipton - near Cold East Cross, Dartmoor 3/6/06.
 
 
Burnet Companion - Buckland Wood, Somerset 29/5/06.
 
 
Sorcerer - Provence 25/7/09.


Four-spotted - Portland, Dorset 19/6/23.


Scarce Blackneck - Provence 8/8/08.


Bryophila vandalusiae - Provence 12/8/06.


Herald - Exmouth garden 19/7/22.


Small Purple-barred - East Budleigh Common 23/7/16.


Beautiful Hook-tip - Exmouth garden 17/6/20.


Straw Dot - Exmouth garden 24/7/19.


Beautiful Snout - trapped Saint Hill, nr Kentisbeare by MW 29/6/19.


Snout - Exmouth garden 21/7/19. Common in Exmouth.


Bloxworth Snout - Exmouth garden 6/4/23. Discovered indoors.


White-line Snout -Exmouth 17/7/19. First garden record.


Pinion-streaked Snout - Exmouth garden 13/9/16.


Marsh Oblique-barred - Colaton Raleigh Common 18/7/07.


Plumed Fan-foot - Provence 12/8/06.


Fan-foot - Exmouth garden.


Dusky Fan-foot - Provence 15/8/06.


Small Fan-foot - Exmouth garden. Common in Exmouth.


Clay Fan-foot - Provence 28/7/09.

Some from further afield...


sp - Cuba Aug '23.


sp - Cuba Aug '23.


sp - Cuba Aug '23.

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