2025 moth year list so far = 169 macros, 106 micros (275 total) Same time last year = 147 macros, 86 micros (233 total)
Macros
May: 40, total: 169
Privet Hawk-moth – Hythe – 11th May
Broken-barred Carpet – Hythe – 11th May
Channel Islands Pug – Hythe and Seabrook – 11th May
Treble Brown Spot – Seabrook – 11th May
Yellow-legged Clearwing – Seabrook – 11th May
Treble-bar – Seabrook – 10th May
Spruce Carpet – Seabrook – 10th May
Marbled Minor agg. – Seabrook – 10th May
Galium Carpet – Hythe – 10th May
Speckled Yellow – Folkestone Downs – 10th May
Mottled Rustic – Seabrook – 9th May
Sandy Carpet – Seabrook – 2nd May
Poplar Kitten – Seabrook – 2nd May
Pale-shouldered Cloud – Cheriton – 1st May
Mottled Pug – Seabrook – 1st May
Bordered Sallow – Hythe – 1st May
Light Feathered Rustic – Hythe – 1st May
Common Swift – West Hythe – 1st May
Oak Hook-tip – Seabrook and West Hythe – 1st May
Pebble Hook-tip – West Hythe – 1st May
Blood-vein – West Hythe – 1st May
The Mocha – West Hythe – 1st May
Small Phoenix – West Hythe – 1st May
Green Carpet – West Hythe – 1st May
Small Waved Umber – West Hythe – 1st May
Pretty Chalk Carpet – West Hythe – 1st May
The Rivulet – Seabrook and West Hythe – 1st May
White-spotted Pug – Seabrook and West Hythe – 1st May
The Seraphim – Hythe and West Hythe – 1st May
Clouded Border – West Hythe – 1st May
Scorched Carpet – West Hythe – 1st May
Peacock Moth – West Hythe – 1st May
Sharp-angled Peacock – West Hythe – 1st May
Pale Oak Beauty – West Hythe – 1st May
Common White Wave – West Hythe – 1st May
Common Wave – West Hythe – 1st May
Little Emerald – West Hythe – 1st May
Ruby Tiger – West Hythe – 1st May
Common Wainscot – West Hythe – 1st May
Green Silver-lines – West Hythe – 1st May
April: 88, total: 129
Lead-coloured Drab – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Common Carpet – Seabrook – 30th Apr
The V-Pug – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Pinion-spotted Pug – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Tawny-barred Angle – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Sallow Kitten – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Orange Footman – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Dark Spectacle – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Alder Moth – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Lime Hawk-moth- Cheriton – 30th Apr
Red Twin-spot Carpet – Cheriton – 30th Apr
Clouded Silver- Cheriton – 30th Apr
Cryptic Fern – Cheriton – 30th Apr
Buttoned Snout – Cheriton – 30th Apr
Eyed Hawk-moth – Hythe – 30th Apr
Small Dusty Wave – Hythe – 30th Apr
Portland Ribbon Wave – Hythe – 30th Apr
May Highflyer – Hythe – 30th Apr
Hoary Footman – Hythe – 30th Apr
Burnished Brass – Hythe – 30th Apr
Puss Moth – Seabrook – 29th Apr
Common Pug – Seabrook – 29th Apr
Treble Lines – Cheriton – 29th Apr
Vine’s Rustic – Cheriton and Hythe – 29th Apr
Willow Beauty – Hythe – 29th Apr
Grey Pine Carpet – Black Hill (Pedlinge) – 29th Apr
Common Heath – Crete Road West – 29th Apr
Small Purple-barred – Crete Road West – 29th Apr
Oak-tree Pug – Seabrook – 28th Apr
Peach Blossom – Seabrook – 28th Apr
Maiden’s Blush – Seabrook – 28th Apr
The Miller – Seabrook – 28th Apr
The Coronet – Seabrook – 28th Apr
Garden Carpet – Cheriton – 28th Apr
Lime-speck Pug – Cheriton – 28th Apr
Buff-tip – Hythe – 28th Apr
Clay Triple-lines – Folks’ Wood – 28th Apr
Brown Silver-line – Seabrook – 28th Apr
Red-Green Carpet – Cheriton – 27th Apr
Powdered Quaker – Cheriton – 27th Apr
The Spectacle – Cheriton – 27th Apr
Broad-barred White – Cheriton – 27th Apr
Coxcomb Prominent – Seabrook – 27th Apr
Rustic Shoulder-knot – Seabrook – 27th Apr
Setaceous Hebrew Character – Hythe – 27th Apr
Common Marbled Carpet – Hythe – 26th Apr
Maple Prominent – Seabrook – 26th Apr
Dark/Grey Dagger – Seabrook – 26th Apr
White-point – Seabrook – 26th Apr
Peppered Moth – Seabrook – 25th Apr
Silver Y – Hythe – 25th Apr
Dotted Chestnut – Hythe – 25th Apr
Poplar Hawk-moth – Hythe – 24th Apr
Iron Prominent – Seabrook – 24th Apr
Dew Moth – Abbotscliffe – 24th Apr (larva), 29th Apr (adult)
Turnip Moth – Hythe – 23rd Apr
The Cinnabar – Hythe – 21st Apr
Small White Wave – Lympne Park Wood – 21st Apr
Swallow Prominent – Seabrook – 19th Apr
Lunar Thorn – Seabrook – 18th Apr
Light Brocade – Seabrook – 18th Apr
Poplar Grey – Seabrook – 18th Apr
Toadflax Brocade – Cheriton – 18th Apr
Pale Tussock – Cheriton – 17th Apr
Cabbage Moth – Hythe – 16th Apr
Lesser Swallow Prominent – Seabrook – 14th Apr
Heart and Dart – Seabrook – 14th Apr
Yellow-barred Brindle – Hythe – 14th Apr
Foxglove Pug – Hythe – 14th Apr
Flame Shoulder – Hythe – 14th Apr
Shuttle-shaped Dart – Hythe – 14th Apr
Pebble Prominent – Seabrook – 13th Apr
Purple Thorn – Cheriton – 12th Apr
Knot Grass – Cheriton and Hythe – 12th Apr
Bright-line Brown-eye – Cheriton and Hythe – 12th Apr
Brimstone Moth – Hythe – 12th Apr
The Herald – Hythe – 12th Apr
Tawny Shears – Hythe – 12th Apr
Lunar Marbled Brown – Seabrook – 12th Apr
Chocolate-tip – Seabrook – 12th Apr
White Ermine – Seabrook – 12th Apr
Pale Prominent – Seabrook – 10th Apr
Burnet Companion – Folkestone Downs – 10th Apr
Least Black Arches – Seabrook – 9th Apr
Frosted Green – Seabrook – 7th Apr
Chinese Character – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Buff Ermine – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Blossom Underwing – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
March: 30, total: 41
Brindled Pug – Seabrook – 28th Mar
Muslin Moth – Seabrook – 28th Mar
Pine Beauty – Seabrook – 28th Mar
Brown-tail – Seabrook – 26th Mar (larva)
The Streamer – Seabrook – 25th Mar
The Mullein – Seabrook – 25th Mar
Brindled Beauty – Hythe and Seabrook – 25th Mar
Pale Mottled Willow – Hythe – 25th Mar
Mottled Grey – Samphire Hoe – 23rd Mar
Large Yellow Underwing – Seabrook – 22nd Mar (larva)
Nut-tree Tussock – Seabrook – 21st Mar
Waved Umber – Seabrook – 20th Mar
Oak Nycteoline – Seabrook – 20th Mar
Angle Shades – Hythe – 19th Mar
Early Thorn – Seabrook – 19th Mar
Yellow Horned – Folks’ Wood – 8th Mar
Water Carpet – Folks’ Wood – 8th Mar
Red Chestnut – Folks’ Wood – 8th Mar
Clouded Drab – Folks’ Wood and Seabrook – 8th Mar
Twin-spotted Quaker – Folks’ Wood and Seabrook – 8th Mar
Early Grey – Cheriton – 8th Mar
Pale Pinion – Black Hill, Pedlinge – 7th Mar
Small Brindled Beauty – Black Hill, Pedlinge – 7th Mar
The Engrailed – Black Hill, Pedlinge – 7th Mar
Small Quaker – Seabrook – 7th Mar
March Moth – Seabrook – 5th Mar
Oak Beauty – Seabrook – 5th Mar
Common Quaker – Hythe – 5th Mar
Hebrew Character – Capel-le-Ferne – 4th Mar
Hummingbird Hawk-moth – Seabrook – 4th Mar
February: 4, total: 11
Dotted Border – Seabrook – 26th Feb
The Satellite – Seabrook – 22nd Feb
The Chestnut – Seabrook – 21st Feb
Dark Chestnut – Seabrook – 16th Feb
January: 7
Early Moth – Seabrook – 31st Jan
Pale Brindled Beauty – Peene – 24th Jan
Spring Usher – Peene – 24th Jan
Double-striped Pug – Seabrook – 15th Jan
Winter Moth – Seabrook – 6th Jan
Mottled Umber – Seabrook – 6th Jan
Bloxworth Snout – Hythe – 6th Jan
Micros
May: 33, total: 106
Aethes williana (Silver-speckled Straw) – Fisherman’s Beach, Hythe – 12th May
Bucculatrix nigricomella (Daisy Tuft) – Hythe – 11th May
Argyresthia cupressella (Cypress Tip Moth) – Hythe – 11th May
Aproaerema anthyllidella (Vetch Moth) – Hythe – 11th May
Rhyacionia pinivorana (Spotted Shoot Moth) – Hythe – 11th May
Coleophora albicosta (Gorse Case-bearer) – Seabrook – 10th May
Notocelia trimaculana (Hawthorn Shoot Moth) – Seabrook – 9th May
Acrocercops brongniardella (Oak Cloud) – Seabrook – 5th May
Eriocrania salopiella (Yellow-headed Spring Jewel) – Gibbin’s Brook – 4th May (tenanted leaf-mine)
Eriocrania sangii (Purple Spring Jewel) – Gibbin’s Brook – 4th May (tenanted leaf-mine)
Yponomeuta cagnagella (Spindle Ermine) – Thorn Wood – 4th May (larva)
Cauchas rufimitrella (Meadow Longhorn) – Aldington Road – 3rd May
Adaina microdactyla (Hemp Agrimony Plume) – Donkey Street -3rd May
Anthophila fabriciana (Nettle-tap) – Donkey Street – 3rd May
Paracrania chrysolepidella (Hazel Spring Jewel) – Bargrove Wood – 3rd May (tenanted leaf-mine)
Pyrausta aurata (Mint Moth) – Folkestone – 1st May
Coptotriche marginea (Bramble Blotch-miner) – Seabrook – 1st May
Platyedra subcinerea (Mallow Seed Moth) – Seabrook – 1st May
Psychoides filicivora (Common Fern Moth) – Seabrook – 1st May
Ethmia quadrillella (Comfrey Ermine) – Seabrook – 1st May
Blastobasis lacticolella (Large Pale Masoner) – Hythe – 1st May
Ethmia bipunctella (Bugloss Ermine) – Hythe – 1st May
Evergestis limbata (Dark-bordered Pearl) – Hythe – 1st May
Monopis laevigella (Skin Moth) – West Hythe – 1st May
Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella (Oak Stilt/Shaded Oak Stilt) – West Hythe – 1st May
Agonopterix purpurea (Least Brown) – West Hythe – 1st May
Agonopterix arenella (Brindled Buff) – West Hythe – 1st May
Epinotia immundana (Birch Tortrix) – West Hythe – 1st May
Cydia strobilella (Spruce Seed Moth) – Seabrook and West Hythe – 1st May
Cryptoblabes bistriga (Double-striped Knot-horn) – West Hythe – 1st May
Nephopterix angustella (Spindle Knot-horn) – West Hythe – 1st May
Glyphipterix simpliciella (Cocksfoot Moth) – Crete Road West – 1st May
Crambus lathoniellus (Meadow Grass-moth) – Crete Road West – 1st May
April: 54, total: 73
Syndemis musculana (Dark-barred Tortrix) – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Aphomia sociella (Bee Moth) – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Monopis obviella (Yellow-backed Detritus Moth) – Hythe – 30th Apr
Bryotropha affinis (Dark Moss-moth) – Hythe – 30th Apr
Lobesia reliquana (Wood Marble) – Hythe – 30th Apr
Elachista argentella (Silver Grass-miner) – Samphire Hoe – 30th Apr
Adela reaumurella (Green Longhorn) – Paraker Wood – 30th Apr
Argyresthia trifasciata (Triple-barred Tip Moth) – Hythe – 29th Apr
Elachista subocellea (Brown-barred Grass-miner) – Crete Road West – 29th Apr
Celypha lacunana (Common Marble) – Seabrook – 28th Apr
Musotima nitidalis (Marbled Fern) – Seabrook – 28th Apr
Notocelia cynosbatella (Black Cloak) – Cheriton and Seabrook – 28th Apr
Gracillaria syringella (Garden Stilt) – Cheriton – 28th Apr
Dioryctria abietella (Pine Knot-horn) – Cheriton – 28th Apr
Ephestia woodiella (Blushed Knot-horn) – Hythe – 28th Apr
Eriocrania unimaculella (White-spotted Spring Jewel) – Folks’ Wood – 28th Apr (tenanted leaf-mine)
Eriocrania cicatricella (Small Spring Jewel) – Folks’ Wood – 28th Apr (tenanted leaf-mine)
Eriocrania semipurpurella (Large Spring Jewel) – Folks’ Wood – 28th Apr (tenanted leaf-mine)
Coleophora serratella (Common Case-bearer) – Folks’ Wood – 28th Apr (larva)
Incurvaria masculella (Feathered Cutter) – Seabrook – 28th Apr
Cochylichroa atricapitana (Black-fronted Straw) – Cheriton – 27th Apr
Evergestis forficalis (Garden Pebble) – Cheriton – 27th Apr
Depressaria radiella (Parsnip Moth) – Seabrook – 27th Apr
Hysterophora maculosana (Small Bluebell Beauty) – Paraker Wood – 26th Apr
Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Brown House-moth) – Seabrook – 25th Apr
Cydia ulicetana (Common Gorse Moth) – Hythe Ranges – 25th Apr
Acrolepia autumnitella (Speckled Bittersweet Moth) – Hythe – 25th Apr
Mompha miscella (Rock-rose Mompha) – Abbotscliffe – 24th Apr (tenanted leaf-mine)
Tachystola acroxantha (Australian Orange-tip) – Hythe – 21st Apr
Dichrorampha acuminatana (Common Daisy Moth) – Hythe – 21st Apr
Elachista canapennella (Common Grass-miner) – Seabrook – 20th Apr
Prays ruficeps (Cryptic Ash Bud Moth) – Seabrook – 20th Apr
Psyche casta (Common Bagworm) – Hythe – 17th Apr (larva)
Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Carnation Tortrix) – Fisherman’s Beach, Hythe – 17th Apr
Epermenia chaerophyllella (Common Ridge-back) – Cheriton – 13th Apr
Caloptilia hemidactylella (Scarce Maple Stilt) – Cheriton – 12th Apr
Monopis crocicapitella (Pale-backed Detritus Moth) – Cheriton – 12th Apr
Mompha subbistrigella (Garden Mompha) – Cheriton – 12th Apr
Agonopterix ciliella (Banded Brindled Brown) – Seabrook – 12th Apr
Eucosma aspidiscana (Goldenrod Tortrix) – Abbotscliffe – 12th Apr
Esperia sulphurella (Sulphur Bark Moth) – Seabrook – 12th Apr
Udea ferrugalis (Rusty Dot Pearl) – Seabrook – 11th Apr
Endrosis sarcitrella (White-shouldered House Moth) – Seabrook – 9th Apr
Dyseriocrania subpurpurella (Common Spring Jewel) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Caloptilia rufipennella (Rufous Stilt) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Caloptilia honoratella (Pale Maple Stilt) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Parornix anglicella (Hawthorn Parornix) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Phyllonorycter maestingella (Beech Leaf-miner) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Choreutis nemorana (Fig-leaf Skeletonizer) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Pseudoswammerdamia combinella (Little Buff-tip) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Phtheochroa rugosana (Rugged Bryony Beauty) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
Eudonia angustea (Narrow-winged Grey) – Seabrook – 3rd Apr
March: 12, total: 21
Mompha epilobiella (Buff Mompha) – Seabrook – 31st Mar
Agonopterix propinquella (Black-spot Buff) – Seabrook – 30th Mar
Caloptilia falconipennella (Dark Alder Stilt) – Seabrook – 23rd Mar
Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth) – Seabrook – 23rd Mar
Agonopterix subpropinquella (Blackneck Buff) – Hythe – 22nd Mar
Depressaria daucella (Water-dropwort Brown) – Seabrook – 19th Mar
Caloptilia betulicola (Birch Stilt) – Folks’ Wood – 8th Mar
Acleris cristana (Tufted Tortrix) – Folks’ Wood – 8th Mar
Acleris ferrugana/notana (Tawny Oak/Birch Tortrix) – Folks’ Wood and Seabrook – 8th Mar
Acleris literana (Lichen Tortrix) – Seabrook – 8th Mar
Diurnea fagella (Early Reveller) – Seabrook – 7th Mar
Emmelina monodactyla (Common Plume) – Hythe and Seabrook – 7th Mar
February: 5, total: 9
Agonopterix heracliana (Common Brindled Brown) – Seabrook – 22nd Feb
Agonopterix alstromeriana (Hemlock Moth) – Seabrook – 20th Feb
Tortricodes alternella (Spring Harbinger) – Seabrook – 19th Feb
Alucita hexadactyla (Twenty-plume Moth) – Cheriton – 18th Feb
Tinea pellionella (Case-bearing Clothes Moth) – Seabrook – 6th Feb (larva), 18th Apr (adult)
January: 4
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Beautiful Plume) – Hythe – 11th Jan
Phyllonorycter leucographella (Firethorn Leaf-miner) – Hythe – 6th Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple-moth) – Cheriton – 5th Jan
Ectoedemia heringella (Speckled Holm Oak Dot) – Hythe – 2nd Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Previous years:
2024 totals were 466 macros and 541 micros (total 1,007)
2023 totals were 468 macros and 469 micros (total 937)
2022 totals were 493 macros and 546 micros (total 1,039)
2021 totals were 446 macros and 446 micros (total 892)
2020 totals were 459 macros and 519 micros (total 978)
2019 totals were 478 macros and 573 micros (total 1,051)
2018 totals were 461 macros and 480 micros (total 941)
2017 totals were 454 macros and 474 micros (total 928)
2016 totals were 399 macros and 325 micros (total 724)
2015 totals were 418 macros and 339 micros (total 757)
2014 totals were 388 macros and 310 micros (total 698)
2013 totals were 371 macros and 290 micros (total 661)