All of the moths on this page
are micro-moths, a somewhat arbitrary sub classification
of the moth family group. The micro-moths generally comprise
the families of small primitive moths and account for
about 1,500 of the 2,500 or so known British species.
Micro-moths breed in a wider variety of habitats than
macro-moths and most of the moths regarded as pests belong
to this family group.
Horse
Chestnut Leaf-miner (Cameraria ohridella) (15 May 2010)*
Chrysoteuchia
culmella - a grass moth
(26
June 2005)*
Spindle
Ermine (Yponomeuta cagnagella)
-
a micromoth
(on
Euonymus fortunei, 18 July 2010)
Acleris
forsskaleana - a micromoth
(26
July 2010)*
Meal
Moth (Pyralis farinalis)
(26
July 2010)*
Meal
Moth (Pyralis farinalis)
(side
view of moth on left
showing up-turned tail.
26
July 2010)*
Honeysuckle
moth (Ypsolopha dentella) - a micromoth
(13
July 2008)
Agriphila
straminella - a grass moth
(31
July 2010)
Blastobasis
adustella (=lignea) - a micromoth
(22
August 2009)
Light
Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) - a micromoth
- male
