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Currant Clearwing
Synanthedon tipuliformis
(Clerck, 1759)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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