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Six-Spot Burnet Zygaena filipendulae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Zygaena filipendulae
  • Family: Zygaenidae (BF: 169)
  • Cambridge (Coton cycle-path TL434586) 29 Jul 2008
  • A common day-flying moth, occupying meadows, woodland clearings and sea-cliffs.
  • The larvae feed mainly on bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus).
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Currant Clearwing Synanthedon tipuliformis (Clerck, 1759)

Synanthedon tipuliformis
  • Family: Sesiidae (BF: 373)
  • Cambridge (garden) 23 Jun 2001
  • Length (head to tail tufts): 9mm. Span (resting) 13mm
  • Larvae bore in stems on currant and gooseberry

Red-belted Clearwing Synanthedon myopaeformis (Borkhausen, 1789)

Synanthedon myopaeformis
  • Family: Sesiidae (BF: 379)
  • Cambridge (garden) 26 Jul 2003
  • Larvae under bark of old fruit trees, especially apples
  • The apparent spine-like projections on the wing-tips must actually be its fore-wings tightly folded

Nettle-tap Anthophila fabriciana (Linnaeus, 1767)

Anthophila fabriciana
  • Family: Choreutidae (BF: 385)
  • Cambridge (garden) 3 Jun 2002
  • Length: 5.5mm.
  • As the name indicates, the larvae feed on nettles

Cherry Fruit Moth Argyresthia pruniella (Fabricius, 1777)

Argyresthia pruniella
  • Family: Yponomeutidae (BF: 420)
  • Cambridge 12 Jun 2002
  • Larvae live in cherry fruit, can be a pest.
  • One of several Argyresthia spp. which adopt this head-down resting posture

Spindle ermine Yponomeuta cagnagella (Hübner, 1813)

Yponomeuta cagnagella
  • Family: Yponomeutidae (BF: 427)
  • Cambridge (garden) 21 Jul 2001
  • Length (head to wing tips): 10mm.
  • Very similar to Y. padella and Y. malinella, this species has pure white ground to the forewings, including the wingtip cilia
  • Larvae feed on Spindle tree (Euonymus)

Diamondback Moth Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Plutella xylostella
  • Family: Yponomeutidae (BF: 464)
  • Cambridge (garden) 17 Jul 2001
  • Length (head to wing tips): 8mm.
  • Also known as Cabbage Moth, larvae can be a pest on cultivated brassica crops.
  • A noted migrant species which arrives in Britain in considerable numbers each spring to breed in the summer

Plutella porrectella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Plutella porrectella
  • Family: Yponomeutidae (BF: 465)
  • Cambridge (garden) 12 Jul 2002
  • Larave feed on dame's violet (Hesperis matronalis).
  • Photograph rotated for convenience of presentation

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