Knockholt, May 2009Called Bee Moth (Galleria mellonella) because it lays it's eggs in beehives, where the larvae are pests due to the fact that they damage honey and combs.
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About the Kent Moths Gallery
This blog is intended as a gallery of photos for all moths found in the county of Kent. Please send through your quality images (and links to your websites) of moth species caught yesterday or yesteryear in order that this can become a complete archive of Kent's moth fauna.
Many thanks,
Tony Morris (Admin) & Ross Newham (Admin) kentmothsgallery@gmail.com
Many thanks,
Tony Morris (Admin) & Ross Newham (Admin) kentmothsgallery@gmail.com
Mothing links
- Anglian Lepidopterist Supplies
- Atropos - sightings
- Dungeness Bird Obs
- Folkestone & Hythe Birds (+ moths!)
- Garden Moths Scheme
- Kent Moths - BC
- Micro Moths of East Kent
- Mothing at St Margarets - Tony Morris
- Moths Count
- Moths of Boughton-under-Blean
- Moths of Dungeness
- Paul Batty - moth equipment
- Sandwich Bay BOT - Moth sightings
- Surrey Moths
- Surrey Moths and Butterflies Blog
- Sussex Moth Group
- The Bald Birder (mainly mothing!)
- UK Moths
Species Photographed
- Actebia praecox (1)
- Adela reaumurella (1)
- Aedia funesta (1)
- Agapeta hamana (1)
- Agapeta zoegana (1)
- Aglossa pinguinalis (1)
- Agonopterix alstromeriana (1)
- Agonopterix arenella (1)
- Agonopterix ocellana (1)
- Agriphila geniculea (1)
- Alder Kitten (1)
- Alucita hexadactyla (1)
- Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (1)
- Antler Moth (1)
- Aphelia paleana (1)
- Archers Dart (1)
- Argyresthia brockeella (1)
- Argyresthia trifasciata (1)
- Argyrotaenia ljungiana (1)
- Autumnal Rustic (1)
- Banded Pine Carpet (1)
- Barred Rivulet (1)
- Barred Sallow (1)
- Barred Straw (1)
- Barred Tooth-striped (1)
- Barred Yellow (1)
- Beaded Chestnut (1)
- Beautiful Carpet (1)
- Beautiful Golden Y (1)
- Beautiful Gothic (1)
- Beautiful Hook-tip (1)
- Beautiful Snout (1)
- Bedstraw Hawk-moth (1)
- Bee Moth (1)
- Birch Mocha (1)
- Bird Cherry Ermine (2)
- Bird's Wing (1)
- Black Arches (1)
- Black Rustic (1)
- Black-spotted Chestnut (1)
- Black-Veined Moth (1)
- Blair's Mocha (1)
- Blair's Shoulder-knot (1)
- Blood Vein (1)
- Blossom Underwing (1)
- Blotched Emerald (2)
- Bordered Straw (1)
- Bright-line Brown-eye (1)
- Brimstone Moth (1)
- Brindled Beauty (1)
- Brindled Green (1)
- Brindled Pug (1)
- Brindled White-spot (1)
- Broad-barred White (1)
- Broom-tip (1)
- Brown House Moth (1)
- Brown-spot Pinion (1)
- Brown-veined Wainscot (1)
- Bucculatrix nigricomella (1)
- Buff Arches (1)
- Buff Ermine (1)
- Buff-tip (1)
- Bulrush Wainscot (1)
- Burnet Companion (1)
- Burnet sp. (1)
- Burnished Brass (1)
- Buttoned Snout (1)
- Caloptilia hauderi (1)
- Campion (2)
- Canary-shouldered Thorn (1)
- Carcina quercana (1)
- Celypha lacunana (1)
- Centre-barred Sallow (1)
- Chamomile Shark (1)
- Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix (1)
- Chevron (1)
- Chinese Character (1)
- Chocolate-tip (1)
- Chrysoteuchia culmella (1)
- Clancy's Rustic (1)
- Clay Fan-foot (1)
- Clepsis spectranana (1)
- Clifden Nonpareil (1)
- Clouded Border (1)
- Clouded Buff (1)
- Clouded Drab (2)
- Clouded-bordered Brindle (1)
- Cochylis atricapitana (1)
- Common Emerald (1)
- Common Footman (1)
- Common Marbled Carpet (1)
- Common Pug (1)
- Common Quaker (2)
- Common Swift (1)
- Common Wainscot (3)
- Common White Wave (1)
- Conobathra tumidana (1)
- Convolvulus Hawk-moth (1)
- Coxcomb Prominent (1)
- Crambus lathoniellus (1)
- Cream Wave (2)
- Cream-bordered Green Pea (1)
- Cream-spot Tiger (1)
- Crescent (1)
- Crimson Speckled (1)
- Currant Pug (1)
- Cydia amplana (1)
- Cydia splendana (1)
- Cynaeda dentalis (1)
- Cypress Carpet (1)
- Cypress Pug (2)
- Dark Arches (2)
- Dark Crimson Underwing (1)
- Dark Spectacle (1)
- Dark Sword Grass (1)
- Dark/Grey Dagger (1)
- Death's-head Hawk Moth (1)
- Deep-brown Dart (1)
- Dew Moth (1)
- Dewick's Plusia (2)
- Diamond-back Moth (1)
- Dingy Footman (1)
- Dingy Shears (1)
- Dingy Shell (1)
- Dioryctria abietella (1)
- Diurnea fagella (1)
- Dog's Tooth (1)
- Dot Moth (1)
- Dotted Border (1)
- Dotted Chestnut (2)
- Dotted Fan-foot (1)
- Double Kidney (1)
- Double-striped Pug (1)
- Drepana curvatula (1)
- Drinker (1)
- Dusky Brocade (1)
- Dusky Hook-tip (1)
- Dusky Sallow (1)
- Dusky Thorn (1)
- Dwarf Cream Wave (1)
- Dwarf Pug (1)
- Early Grey (2)
- Early Thorn (1)
- Eidophasia messingiella (1)
- Elachista argentella (1)
- Elachista rufocinerea (1)
- Elephant Hawkmoth (3)
- Emmelina monodactyla (1)
- Emmetia marginea (1)
- Endothenia gentianaeana (1)
- Endothenia marginana (1)
- Epiblema cynosbatella (1)
- Epiblema foenella (1)
- Epiphyas postvittana (1)
- Eriocrania subpurpurella (1)
- Ethmia Bipunctella (1)
- Eudonia angustea (1)
- Eudonia pallida (1)
- Eulia Ministrana (1)
- Eupoecilia ambiguella (1)
- European Corn-borer (1)
- Eurrhypara hortulata (1)
- Evergestis extimalis (1)
- Evergestis forficalis (1)
- Evergestis limbata (1)
- Eyed Hawkmoth (1)
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- Feathered Gothic (2)
- Feathered Ranunculus (1)
- Fen Wainscot (1)
- Fern (1)
- Festoon (1)
- Fiery Clearwing (1)
- Flame Carpet (1)
- Flame Shoulder (1)
- Flame Wainscot (1)
- Flounced Chestnut (1)
- Flounced Rustic (1)
- Four-spotted (1)
- Four-spotted Footman (1)
- Fox Moth (1)
- Foxglove Pug (1)
- Freyer's Pug (2)
- Frosted Green (1)
- Frosted Orange (1)
- Garden Pebble (1)
- Garden Tiger (2)
- Ghost Moth (3)
- Goat Moth (1)
- Gold Spot (1)
- Golden Twin-spot (1)
- Grass Emerald (1)
- Great Brocade (1)
- Great Prominent (2)
- Green Arches (1)
- Green Carpet (1)
- Green Pug (1)
- Green Silver-lines (1)
- Green-brindled Crescent (1)
- Grey Birch (1)
- Grey Pine Carpet (2)
- Harpella forficella (1)
- Heart and Dart (1)
- Hebrew Character (2)
- Hedya pruniana (1)
- Herald (1)
- Hoary Footman (1)
- Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner (1)
- Incurvaria masculella (1)
- Incurvaria oehlmanniella (1)
- Iron Prominent (1)
- Jersey Tiger (1)
- July Belle (1)
- July Highflyer (1)
- Kent Black Arches (1)
- Knot Grass (1)
- L-Album Wainscot (1)
- Lace Border (1)
- Lackey (1)
- Langmaid's Yellow Underwing (1)
- Lappet (1)
- Large Emerald (1)
- Large Fruit-tree Tortrix (1)
- Large Tabby (1)
- Large Thorn (1)
- Large Wainscot (1)
- Latin (1)
- Latticed Heath (1)
- Lead-coloured Drab (1)
- Lead-coloured Pug (1)
- Least Black Arches (1)
- Least Carpet (1)
- Leopard Moth (1)
- Lesser Cream Wave (1)
- Lesser Swallow Prominent (1)
- Lesser Treble-bar (2)
- Light Arches (1)
- Light Brocade (1)
- Light Emerald (1)
- Light Feathered Rustic (1)
- Lime Hawkmoth (2)
- Lime-speck Pug (1)
- Lobesia reliquana (1)
- Lobster Moth (1)
- Loxostege sticticalis (1)
- Lozotaenia forsterana (1)
- Lozotaeniodes formosanus (1)
- Lunar Double-stripe (1)
- Lunar Marbled Brown (1)
- Lunar Thorn (1)
- Lunar Underwing (1)
- Lunar-spotted Pinion (1)
- Luquetia lobella (1)
- Maiden's Blush (1)
- Mallow (1)
- Maple Prominent (2)
- Marbled Beauty (2)
- Marbled Minor (1)
- March Moth (1)
- Meal Moth (1)
- Mere Wainscot (1)
- Merveille du Jour (1)
- Metzneria neuropterella (1)
- Micropterix calthella (1)
- Minor Shoulder-knot (1)
- Mother Shipton (2)
- Mottled Beauty (1)
- Mottled Pug (1)
- Mouse Moth (1)
- Mullein (1)
- Mullein Wave (1)
- Muslin Moth (1)
- Nascia cilialis (1)
- Nemophora degeerella (1)
- Nephopterix angustella (1)
- Netted Pug (1)
- Ni Moth (2)
- Nut-tree Tussock (3)
- Oak Beauty (1)
- Oak Eggar (1)
- Oak Hook-tip (1)
- Oak Lutestring (2)
- Oak Nycteoline (1)
- Oak Processionary (1)
- Oak Rustic Dryobota labecula (1)
- Obscure Wainscot (2)
- Ochreous Pug (1)
- Old Lady (1)
- Olethreutes arcuella (1)
- Olive (1)
- Olive Crescent (1)
- Oncocera semirubella (1)
- Orange Footman (1)
- Orange Moth (1)
- Orange Sallow (1)
- Orange Swift (2)
- Orange-tailed Clearwing (1)
- Orthopygia glaucinalis (1)
- Pale Brindled Beauty (1)
- Pale Eggar (1)
- Pale Mottled Willow (1)
- Pale Oak Beauty (1)
- Pale Prominent (1)
- Pale Shining Brown (1)
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- Pale-shouldered Brocade (1)
- Pale-shouldered Cloud (1)
- Pammene germmana (1)
- Pandemis corylana (1)
- Passenger (1)
- Peach Blossom (2)
- Peacock Moth (1)
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- Pebble Prominent (2)
- Peppered Moth (1)
- Peppered Moth f. carbonaria (1)
- Phtheochroa rugosana (1)
- Phycita roborella (1)
- Phyllonorycter acerifoliella (1)
- Phyllonorycter nicellii (1)
- Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae (1)
- Pigmy Footman (1)
- Pine Beauty (1)
- Pine Carpet (2)
- Pine Hawk-moth (1)
- Pinion–spotted Pug (1)
- Pink-barred Sallow (1)
- Plain Golden Y (1)
- Plain Pug (1)
- Platyptilia pallidactyla (1)
- Plumed Fan-foot (1)
- Plumed Prominet (1)
- Plutella porrectella (1)
- Poplar Grey (1)
- Poplar Hawkmoth (2)
- Poplar Kitten (1)
- Portland Moth (1)
- Powdered Quaker (1)
- Pretty Chalk Carpet (1)
- Privet Hawk-moth (2)
- Pseudargyrotoza conwagana (1)
- Pterophorus pentadactyla (1)
- Purple Clay (1)
- Purple Thorn (1)
- Puss Moth (1)
- Pyrausta aurata (1)
- Pyrausta nigrata (1)
- Pyrausta purpuralis (1)
- Rannoch Looper (4)
- Raspberry Clearwing (1)
- Red Chestnut (1)
- Red Twin-spot Carpet (1)
- Red-belted Clearwing (1)
- Red-line Quaker (1)
- Red-necked Footman (1)
- Reddish Light Arches (1)
- Reed Dagger (1)
- Rhopobota naevana (1)
- Rhyacionia pinicolana (1)
- Riband Wave ab. remutata (1)
- Rosy Footman (2)
- Rosy Marbled (1)
- Rosy Rustic (1)
- Rosy Wave (1)
- Round-winged Muslin (1)
- Royal Mantle (1)
- Ruddy Carpet (1)
- Rush Veneer (1)
- Rustic Shoulder-knot (1)
- Sallow Kitten (1)
- Saltern Ear (1)
- Satin Lutestring (1)
- Scallop Shell (1)
- Scalloped Hazel (1)
- Scalloped Hook-tip (3)
- Scarce Bordered Straw (1)
- Scarce Chocolate Tip (1)
- Scarce Footman (2)
- Scarce Merveille du Jour (1)
- Scarce Prominent (2)
- Scarce Silver-lines (1)
- Scarlet Tiger (1)
- Schoenobius gigantella (1)
- Sciota rhenella (1)
- Scorched Carpet (1)
- Scorched Wing (1)
- September Thorn (1)
- Shaded Broad-bar (1)
- Shark (2)
- Sharp-angled Peacock (1)
- Shore Wainscot (1)
- Short-cloaked Moth (1)
- Shoulder Stripe (1)
- Shoulder-stiped Wainscot (1)
- Shuttle-shaped Dart (2)
- Silver Y (1)
- Silver-ground Carpet (1)
- Silver-striped Hawk-moth (1)
- Six-belted Clearwing (1)
- Six-spot Burnet (1)
- Six-striped Rustic (1)
- Sloe Carpet (1)
- Small Angle Shades (1)
- Small Clouded Brindle (1)
- Small Dusty Wave (1)
- Small Elephant Hawkmoth (2)
- Small Emerald (1)
- Small Fan-foot (1)
- Small Magpie (2)
- Small Mottled Willow (1)
- Small Purple-barred (1)
- Small Quaker (1)
- Small Ranunculus (2)
- Small Square-spot (1)
- Small Waved Umber (1)
- Smoky Wainscot (2)
- Southern Wainscot (1)
- Speckled Yellow (1)
- Splendid Brocade (1)
- Sprawler (1)
- Spring Usher (1)
- Spurge Hawkmoth (1)
- Square-spot Rustic (3)
- Straw Belle (1)
- Straw Underwing (1)
- Striped Hawk-moth (1)
- Svennson's Copper Underwing (1)
- Swallow Prominent (1)
- Swallow-tailed Moth (1)
- Sycamore (1)
- Synaphe Punctalis (1)
- Taleporia tubulosa (1)
- Tamarisk Peacock (Chiasmia aestimaria) (1)
- Tawny Shears (1)
- Tawny-speckled Pug (1)
- The Annulet (2)
- The Blackneck (1)
- The Chestnut (2)
- The Cinnabar (1)
- The Clay (1)
- The Coronet (1)
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- The Dun-bar (1)
- The Engrailed (2)
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- The Flame (1)
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- The Satellite (2)
- The Shears (1)
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- Wormwood Pug (2)
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- Yellow Shell (2)
- Yellow-barred Brindle (1)
- Yellow-horned Moth (1)
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- Yellow-tail (1)
- Ypsolopha mucronella (1)
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