A selection of moths and butterflies from our garden and out and about during July.
If I have labelled any incorrectly, please let me know!
Sallow Kitten Furcula furcula
Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana
Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana
Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana
Barred Straw Eulithis pyraliata
Beautiful Golden Y Autographa pulchrina
Beautiful Golden Y Autographa pulchrina
Agriphila straminella
Epiblema scutulana
Blastobasis lacticolella
Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea
Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata
Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Buff Ermine Spilosoma luteum
Buff-tip Phalera bucephala
Buff-tip Phalera bucephala
Celypha lacunana
Celypha lacunana
Chimney Sweeper Odezia atrata
The Cinnabar Tyria jacobaeae caterpillar
The Cinnabar Tyria jacobaeae
Clouded Border Lomaspilis marginata
Common/Lesser Common Rustic (Mesapamea secalis/didyma)
Common Carpet Epirrhoe alternata
Common Carpet Epirrhoe alternata
Common Footman Eilema lurideola caterpillar
Common/Lesser Common Rustic (Mesapamea secalis/didyma)
Common/Lesser Common Rustic (Mesapamea secalis/didyma)
Common Wainscot Mythimna pallens
Common Wave Cabera exanthemata
Common White Wave Cabera pusaria
Coxcomb Prominent Ptilodon capucina
Coxcomb Prominent Ptilodon capucina
Coxcomb Prominent Ptilodon capucina
Crambus ericella
Crambus ericella
Crambus ericella
Crambus lathoniellus
Crambus pascuella
Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha
Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha
Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella
Double Square-spot Xestia triangulum
Epiblema sp
Eucosma campoliliana
Eucosma campoliliana
Eucosma cana
Eudonia-sp
Flame Carpet Xanthorhoe designata
Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta
Fritillary
Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella
Garden Tiger Arctia caja
Garden Tiger Arctia caja
Ghost Moth Hepialus humuli (female)
Grass Emerald Pseudoterpna pruinata
Green Carpet Colostygia pectinataria
Green-veined White Pieris napi mating
Green-veined White Pieris napi
Ingrailed Clay Diarsia mendica
July Highflyer Hydriomena furcata
Large Skipper Ochlodes faunus
Large Skipper Ochlodes faunus female
Large Skipper Ochlodes faunus Male
Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba
Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba
Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba
Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba
Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba
Light Emerald Campaea margaritata
Light Grey Tortrix Cnephasia incertana
Light Grey Tortrix Cnephasia incertana
The Lychnis Hadena bicruris
Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina male
Eucosma cana?
Middle-barred Minor Oligia fasciuncula
Middle-barred Minor Oligia fasciuncula
Mottled Beauty Alcis repandata
Muslin Footman Nudaria mundana
Northern eggar (Lasiocampa quercus callunae) caterpillar
Pale-shouldered Brocade Lacanobia thalassina
Peach Blossom Thyatira batis
Peach Blossom Thyatira batis
Pinion-streaked Snout Schrankia costaestrigalis
Pinion-streaked Snout Schrankia costaestrigalis
Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi
Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi
Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi
Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi
Wormwood Pug (Eupithecia absinthiata)
Larch Pug Eupithecia lariciata?
Purple Bar Cosmorhoe ocellata
Purple Clay Diarsia brunnea
Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
Red-necked Footman Atolmis rubricollis mating…
…looks a bit awkward!
Riband Wave Idaea aversata ab. remutata
Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus
Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus
Sallow Kitten Furcula furcula
Sandy Carpet Perizoma flavofasciata
Scoparia pyralella
Silver-ground Carpet Xanthorhoe montanata
Silver Y Autographa gamma
Silver Y Autographa gamma
Single-dotted Wave Idaea dimidiata
Small Dotted Buff Photedes minima
Small Argent & Sable Epirrhoe tristata
Small Argent & Sable Epirrhoe tristata
Small Argent & Sable Epirrhoe tristata
Small Fan-foot Herminia grisealis
Small Fan-footed Wave Idaea biselata
Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus
Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata
Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene
Small Rivulet Perizoma alchemillata
Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura
Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura
The Snout Hypena proboscidalis
spider pos Linyphia triangularis-eating-chimney-sweeper
Dichrorampha montanana
Dichrorampha montanana
Square-spot Rustic Xestia xanthographa
The Uncertain Hoplodrina alsines?
True Lover's Knot Lycophotia porphyrea
True Lover's Knot Lycophotia porphyrea
Udea lutealis
Udea olivalis
Wave