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 - 554 species (Exmouth garden - 337).

Moths total (macros + micros - 845). 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.

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 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.

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 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 - Orcombe Point, Exmouth. Found beside 'Bristol Schools' light 14/4/24.

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.

Red Sword-grass - Budleigh 12/4/24. Trapped by Nick Pratt.

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.

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