Common Moths In The Uk

Flies on warm days often with other species of moth and dingy skipper butterflies.

Common moths in the uk. Over 2500 species have been recorded in the british isles and currently 2261 of these are illustrated featuring 7271 photographs. Elephant hawk moth deilephila elpenor this exquisitely beautiful species with its crimson blush is a common and widespread resident throughout the british islesin gardens its caterpillars are often found on fuchsias. Created over a period of 18 months the images were. Artist sarah gillespie has created an intricate series of mezzotints to highlight the plight of moths whose numbers are declining in the uk.

Long term data from the rothamsted insect survey has shown that two thirds of british larger moth species have declined in abundance since the late 1960s and around 62 species have gone extinct. The colours virtual absence in other species while common in butterflies is one of many. It is distributed all across the world and is literally found everywhere. Moths are flying insects in the order of lepidoptera which is also the same order to which butterflies belong.

This moth is also known as honeycomb moth and it belongs to the pyralidae family same as the indianmeal moth. The garden tiger moth is relatively common in the uk although it has declined since the 1980s. A brownish moth with wavy crosslines on the forewings and orange yellow on the hindwings. Alessandro says the pattern on the wings is variable and no two garden tiger moths are exactly alike even the two wings of an individual can.

Declines have also been seen in northern europe and may be. Ukmoths facebook page. There are over 160000 recorded species of moths across the globe with around 11000 of these being found in the united states and around 2500 being found in the united kingdom. The ultimate idea of the site was to illustrate as many species of british moths as possible and to provide this information in an accessible format.

Ukmoths is built run and maintained by ian kimber with thanks to the many kind contributors who provide photos and information. It has unmistakable brown blotches on its white forewings and blue black spots on its orange hindwings. Clifden nonpareil very rare and very beautiful with the largest expanse of blue among uk moths. It gets its other common name that is honeycomb moth due to the fact that it does parasitization of honeybees and hives.