Butterflies & Moths of the Copse
BUTTERFLIES
We are fortunate that the Copse habitat helps sustain a wide variety of butterflies including:
Brimstone, Checkered Skipper, Comma, Fritillary, Meadow Brown, Orange tip, Painted Lady, Red admiral, Small Blue, Speckled wood, Tortoiseshell, Wood White
MOTHS
A 3 month survey of night flying moths was conducted between July & September 2015. A skinner trap was used to attract and trap moths in one of the gardens adjoining the Copse. Some 61 species of Moths were identified and photographed (where possible) before being released, including a few of the larger micro moths. Smaller micro moths were released without being identified.
Aug 2017 - A new moth trap has been built and trapping and photographing has re-commenced, these original pictures and identified species are now being augmented.
August Thorn
Barred Red
Barrett's Marbled Coronet
Bright Line Brown Eye
Beautiful Hook Tip
Brimstone
Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing
Buff Ermine Clay
Buff-tip Clouded Border
Canary Shouldered Thorn
Common Emerald
Common Footman
Common Marbled Carpet
Common Rustic
Common Wave
Coronet
Dark Arches
Double Striped Pug
Dun-Bar
Dwarf Cream Wave
Ear Moth
Festoon
Flame
Flame Carpet
Flame Shoulder
Freyers Pug
Garden Carpet
Great Oak Beauty
Green Oak Tortrix
Green Pug
Grey Pine Carpet
Heart and Club
Heart and Dart
Iron Prominent
Least Yellow Under-wing
Knot Grass
Large Yellow Under-wing
Lesser Yellow Under-wing
Lime Speck Pug
Maidens Blush
Marbled Beauty
Mottled Beauty
Mottled Pug
Nut-tree tussock
Pale Tussock
Pale Prominent
Poplar Hawkmoth
Riband Wave
Rosy Footman
September Thorn
Shuttle Shaped Dart
Single Dotted Wave
Small Fan Footed Wave
Small Phoenix
Square Spot Rustic
Straw Dot
Sycamore
Treble Brown Spot
Treble Lines
Turnip Moth
Uncertain
White Point
Willow Beauty
All photographs provided by and used with the permission of Paul White.
Donations for the use of these images should be made to Glebe Copse Trust.
If you can identify any other moths you see in the woods please notify us.
Please use the contact form and give details of what, where and when you saw it.