A comprehensive list of moths recorded from traps in various locations, scientific names, status, food plants (accurate to my knowledge) and where possible pictures of larva included (all UK based). I’ve also included illustrations to show variations possible in species. Alternatively, search the common or Latin names below
- Acleris bergmanniana
- Acleris emargana
- Acleris forsskaleana
- Acleris laterana/comariana
- Acrobasis advenella
- Aethes cnicana
- Agapeta Hamana
- Agonopterix arenella
- Agonopterix heracliana
- Anania Coronata
- Ancylis Badiana
- Angle Shades
- Aphelia paleana
- Apotomis betuletana
- Apple Leaf Miner
- Argyresthia geodartella
- Argyresthia retinella
- Argyresthia semitestacella
- August Thorn
- Bactra lancealana
- Barred fruit-tree Tortrix
- Barred Red
- Barred Sallow
- Barred Straw
- Barred Yellow
- Batrachedra praeangusta
- Beautiful Carpet
- Beautiful Golden Y
- Beautiful Snout
- Bee Moth
- Birch Mocha
- Black Rustic
- Blair’s Shoulder-knot
- Blastobasis adustella
- Blastobasis lacticolella
- Blastodacna hellerella
- Bordered Beauty
- Bright-Line Brown-Eye
- Brimstone
- Brindled Green
- Brindled Pug
- Broad-barred White
- Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
- Broken-barred Carpet
- Broom Moth
- Brown China Mark
- Brussels Lace
- Bud Moth
- Buff Arches
- Buff Ermine
- Buff Footman
- Buff Tip
- Bulrush Wainscot
- Burnished Brass – f. juncta
- Burnished Brass f. aurea
- Cabbage
- Caloptilia Azaleela
- Caloptilia stigmatella
- Canary-shouldered Thorn
- Carcina quercana
- Catoptria margaritella
- Celypha lacunana
- Chilo phragmitella
- Chinese Character
- Cinnabar
- Clay Triple-lines
- Clepsis consimilana
- Cloaked Minor
- Clouded Drab
- Clouded Silver
- Clouded-bordered Brindle
- Coleophora serratella
- Common Emerald
- Common Lutestring
- Common Marbled Carpet
- Common Plume
- Common Pug
- Common Quaker
- Common Swift
- Common Wave
- Common White Wave
- Copper Underwing
- Coxcomb Prominent
- Crescent
- Cydia splendana
- Cydia ulicetana
- Dark Arches
- Dark Chestnut
- Dark Spectacle
- Dark Sword Grass
- December Moth
- Dingy Shears
- Diurnea fagella
- Dog’s Tooth
- Donacaula forficella
- Dotted Border
- Dotted Clay
- Double Square Spot
- Double Striped Pug
- Drinker
- Donacaula mucronella
- Dun-bar
- Dusky Brocade
- Dwarf Pug
- Dyseriocrania-subpurpurella
- Elachista atricomella
- Early Grey
- Early Thorn
- Elachista argentella
- Elephant Hawk-moth
- Emperor
- Endothenia quadrimaculana
- Epagoge grotiana
- Epiblema Agg
- Epiblema cirsiana
- Epinotia bilunana
- Epinotia immundana
- Epinotia nisella
- Epinotia signatana
- Esperia sulphurella
- Eucosma campoliliana
- Eucosma cana
- Eucosma hohenwartiana
- Eudonia delunella
- Eudonia lacustrata
- Eudonia mercurella
- Eudonia pallida
- Eupoecilia angustana
- Eyed Hawk-moth
- Fan foot
- Feathered Thorn
- Flame
- Flame Carpet
- Flame Shoulder
- Flounced Rustic
- Forester
- Four-spotted Footman
- Fox Moth
- Frosted Orange
- Garden Carpet
- Garden Grass Veneer
- Garden Pebble
- Garden Rose Tortrix
- Garden Tiger
- Gelechia sororculella
- Ghost Moth
- Glyphipterix thrasonella
- Gold Spangle
- Gold Spot
- Golden-rod Pug
- Gracillaria Syringella
- Grapholita jungiella
- Grass Emerald
- Grass Rivulet
- Green Arches
- Green Carpet
- Green-brindled Crescent
- Green Oak Tortrix
- Grey Dagger
- Grey Pine Carpet
- Haworth’s Minor
- Heart & Club
- Heart & Dart
- Hebrew Character
- Herald
- Humming-bird Hawk-moth
- Incurvaria masculella
- Ingrailed Clay
- Iron Prominent
- July High Flyer
- Knot Grass
- Large Wainscot
- Large Yellow Underwing
- Latticed Heath
- Least Black Arches
- Least Yellow Underwing
- Lesser broad Bordered Yellow Underwing
- Lesser Cream Wave
- Lesser Yellow Underwing
- Light Arches
- Light Brocade
- Light Brown Apple moth
- Light Emerald
- Lime Speck Pug
- Lozotaenia Forsterana
- Magpie
- Map-winged Swift
- Marbled Beauty
- Marbled Orchard Tortrix
- Marbled Minor
- Marbled White Spot
- March Moth
- May Highflyer
- Merveille du Jour
- Micropterix calthella
- Middle Barred Minor
- Mompha subbistrigella
- Mother of Pearl
- Mottled Rustic
- Mottled Umber
- Muslin
- Narrow-bordered 5 Spot Burnet
- Narrow-winged Pug
- Notocelia cynosbatella
- Notocelia roborana
- Notocelia trimaculana
- November Moth
- Oak-tree Pug
- Oblique Carpet
- Orange Sallow
- Pale Brindled Beauty
- Pale Pinion
- Pale Prominent
- Pale Shouldered Brocade
- Pale Tussock
- Peach Blossom
- Pebble Hook-tip
- Pebble Prominent
- Peppered Moth
- Pine Beauty
- Pinion-streaked Snout
- Pink-barred Sallow
- Plain Golden Y
- Poplar Hawk-moth
- Powdered Quaker
- Red-barred Tortrix
- Red-green Carpet
- Red-line Quaker
- Red Sword-grass
- Rhigognostis incarnatella
- Riband Wave
- Rosy Rustic
- Round-winged Muslin
- Ruby Tiger
- Rustic Aggregates
- Sallow
- Satellite
- Scallop Shell
- Scalloped Hazel
- Scalloped Hook-tip
- Scalloped Oak
- Scoparia ambigualis
- Scorched Wing
- Scrobipalpa costella
- Seraphim
- Setaceous Hebrew Character
- Shaded Broad Bar
- Sharp Angled Carpet
- Silver Ground Carpet
- Silver Hook
- Silver Y
- Single Dotted Wave
- Six Spot Burnet
- Six Striped Rustic
- Small Angle Shades
- Small Blood-vein
- Small Clouded Brindle
- Small Elephant Hawk-moth
- Small fan-footed Wave
- Small Magpie
- Small Quaker
- Small Seraphim
- Small Wainscot
- Small Wainscot
- Small Yellow Wave
- Smoky Wainscot
- Snout
- Southern Wainscot
- Spectacle
- Spruce Carpet
- Square-spot Rustic
- Swallow Prominent
- Swallowtail
- Syndemis musculana
- Tachystola acroxantha
- The Brick
- The Chestnut
- The Engrailed
- The Lychnis
- The Miller
- The Shark
- The Streamer
- The Vestal
- Thistle Ermine
- Tinea semifulvella
- Treble Lines
- True Lover’s Knot
- Turnip
- Twenty-plume Moth
- Twin-spotted Quaker
- Udea lutealis
- Udea olivalis
- Udea prunalis
- Uncertain
- Valerian Pug
- V Pug
- Water Carpet
- Waved Umber
- White Ermine
- White Plume
- White Shouldered House moth
- Willow Beauty
- Wormwood Pug
- Yarrow Plume
- Yellow-barred Brindle
- Yellow-line Quaker
- Yellow Shell
- Yponomeuta Aggregates
- Ypsolopha parenthesella
