2026 moth year list so far = 73 macros, 46 micros (119 total) Same time last year = 63 macros, 39 micros (102 total)
Macros
April: 23, total: 73
Small Mottled Willow – Seabrook – 17th Apr
Shuttle-shaped Dart – Seabrook – 17th Apr
Common Heath – Danton Lane – 17th Apr
Puss Moth – Seabrook – 16th Apr
Pale Prominent – Seabrook – 16th Apr
Pearly Underwing – Seabrook – 16th Apr
Pale Tussock – Seabrook – 14th Apr
Silver Y – Seabrook – 10th Apr
Pale Mottled Willow – Seabrook – 9th Apr
Red Twin-spot Carpet – Cheriton – 8th Apr
Least Black Arches – Cheriton – 8th Apr
Chocolate-tip – Cheriton and Seabrook – 8th Apr
The Mullein – Hythe – 8th Apr
Brimstone Moth – Cheriton – 7th Apr
Pebble Prominent – Cheriton – 7th Apr
Brown Silver-line – Seabrook – 7th Apr
White-spotted Pug – Seabrook – 7th Apr
Bright-line Brown-eye – Hythe – 6th Apr
Red-Green Carpet – Folks’ Wood – 1st Apr
Oak-tree Pug – Folks’ Wood – 1st Apr
Early Tooth-striped – Folks’ Wood – 1st Apr
Lunar Marbled Brown – Folks’ Wood – 1st Apr
Dew Moth – Abbotscliffe – 1st April (larva)
March: 28, total: 50
Small Phoenix – Seabrook – 31st Mar
Nut-tree Tussock – Seabrook – 31st Mar
Brown-tail – Bluehouse Lane – 29th Mar (larva)
Yellow-barred Brindle – Seabrook – 28th Mar
Frosted Green – Seabrook – 23rd Mar
Scorched Carpet – Spring Lane Cemetery – 23rd Mar
The V-pug – Spring Lane Cemetery – 23rd Mar
Muslin Moth – Seabrook – 22nd Mar
Lead-coloured Drab – Seabrook – 22nd Mar
Powdered Quaker – Seabrook – 21st Mar
Brindled Beauty – Seabrook – 19th Mar
Blossom Underwing – Seabrook – 18th Mar
Lesser Yellow Underwing – Seabrook – 18th Mar (larva)
The Streamer – Folkestone Warren – 17th Mar
Barred Tooth-striped – Folkestone Warren – 17th Mar
Shoulder Stripe – Seabrook – 17th Mar
Early Thorn – Seabrook – 17th Mar
Pine Beauty – Seabrook – 17th Mar
Mottled Grey – Samphire Hoe – 10th Mar
Grey Shoulder-knot – Seabrook – 7th Mar
Brindled Pug – Seabrook – 5th Mar
Waved Umber – Seabrook – 5th Mar
Tawny Pinion – Seabrook – 5th Mar
Red Chestnut – Seabrook – 4th Mar
Hummingbird Hawk-moth – Cheriton – 4th Mar
Angle Shades – Seabrook – 3rd Mar (larva), Cheriton – 21st Mar (adult)
Pale Pinion – Saltwood – 2nd Mar
Water Carpet – Seabrook – 2nd Mar
February: 13, total: 22
Twin-spotted Quaker – Seabrook – 27th Feb
The Engrailed – Seabrook – 25th Feb
Early Grey – Capel-le-Ferne – 24th Feb
Small Brindled Beauty – Seabrook – 24th Feb
Double-striped Pug – Seabrook – 24th Feb
Clouded Drab – Seabrook – 23rd Feb
Small Quaker – Seabrook – 23rd Feb
Common Quaker – Seabrook – 22nd Feb
March Moth – Seabrook – 19th Feb
The Satellite – Seabrook – 16th Feb
Bloxworth Snout – Saltwood – 15th Feb
Oak Beauty – Seabrook – 11th Feb
Dotted Border – Seabrook – 11th Feb
January: 9
Early Moth – Seabrook – 31st Jan
Hebrew Character – Seabrook – 22nd Jan
Oak Eggar – Castle Hill – 22nd Jan (larva)
Spring Usher – Seabrook – 18th Jan
Pale Brindled Beauty – Seabrook – 14th Jan
Dark Chestnut – Seabrook – 14th Jan
Winter Moth – Seabrook – 12th Jan
The Chestnut – Cheriton – 12th Jan
Mottled Umber – Seabrook – 1st Jan
Micros
April: 21, total: 46
Acleris literana (Lichen Tortrix) – Seabrook – 17th Apr
Esperia sulphurella (Sulphur Bark Moth) – Seabrook – 16th Apr
Agonopterix scopariella (Broom Buff) – Seabrook – 14th Apr
Dyseriocrania subpurpurella (Common Spring Jewel) – Spring Lane Cemetery – 10th Apr
Agonopterix rotundella (Ashen Buff) – Samphire Hoe – 9th Apr
Tachystola acroxantha (Australian Orange-tip) – Cheriton – 8th Apr
Psyche casta (Common Bagworm) – Folkestone Warren – 9th Apr (larva)
Epermenia chaerophyllella (Common Ridge-back) – Hythe – 8th Apr
Pyrausta despicata (Straw-barred Pearl) – Abbotscliffe and Folkestone Downs – 8th Apr
Mompha epilobiella (Buff Mompha) – Seabrook – 8th Apr
Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Carnation Tortrix) – Seabrook – 8th Apr
Mompha subbistrigella (Garden Mompha) – Seabrook – 7th Apr
Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth) – Seabrook – 7th Apr
Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Brown House-moth) – Seabrook – 7th Apr
Eudonia angustea (Narrow-winged Grey) – Seabrook – 7th Apr
Caloptilia stigmatella (Willow Stilt) – Hythe – 7th Apr
Pyrausta purpuralis (Mint Moth) – Folkestone Downs – 7th Apr
Phyllonorycter messaniella (Ilex Leaf-miner) – Seabrook – 1st Apr
Caloptilia hemidactylella (Scarce Maple Stilt) – Cheriton – 1st Apr
Endrosis sarcitrella (White-shouldered House-moth) – Folks’ Wood – 1st Apr
Musotima nitidalis (Marbled Fern) – Folks’ Wood – 1st Apr
March: 9, total: 25
Agonopterix pallorella (Black-streaked Buff) – Cherry Garden Hill – 31st Mar
Agonopterix propinquella (Black-spot Buff) – Cheriton – 31st Mar
Dahlica inconspicuella (Lesser Lichen Case-bearer) – Abbotscliffe – 23rd Mar
Digitivalva pulicariae (Fleabane Moth) – Abbotscliffe – 23rd Mar
Mompha miscella (Rock-rose Mompha) – Abbotscliffe – 23rd Mar (tenanted leaf-mine)
Pseudoswammerdamia combinella (Little Buff-tip) – Seabrook – 20th Mar
Acleris cristana (Tufted Tortrix) – Seabrook – 18th Mar
Depressaria daucella (Water-dropwort Brown) – Seabrook – 17th Mar
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Beautiful Plume) – Hythe – 9th Mar
February: 9, total: 16
Acleris logiana (White Birch Tortrix) – Seabrook – 25th Feb
Diurnea fagella (Early Reveller) – Shorncliffe – 25th Feb
Crocidosema plebejana (Tree-mallow Tortrix) – Seabrook – 24th Feb
Agonopterix heracliana (Common Brindled Brown) – Seabrook – 21st Feb
Agonopterix alstromeriana (Hemlock Moth) – Seabrook – 21st Feb
Alucita hexadactyla (Many-plumed Moth) – Folkestone – 19th Feb
Tinea pellionella (Case-bearing Clothes Moth) – Seabrook – 19th Feb
Acleris ferrugana (Tawny Oak Tortrix) – Seabrook – 10th Feb
Emmelina monodactyla (Common Plume) – Hythe – 8th Feb
January: 7
Luffia lapidella (Ramshorn Bagworm) – Cheriton – 29th Jan (larva)
Phyllonorycter leucographella (Firethorn Leaf-miner) – Sellindge – 26th Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Tortricodes alternella (Spring Harbinger) – Heane Wood – 20th Jan
Ypsolopha ustella (Varied Ochre) – Cheriton – 18th Jan
Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple Moth) – Cheriton and Hythe – 12th Jan
Stigmella aurella (Golden Dot) – West Hythe – 6th Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Ectoedemia heringella (Speckled Holm Oak Dot) – Fisherman’s Beach, Hythe – 3rd Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Previous years:
2025 totals were 476 macros and 544 micros (total 1,020)
2024 totals were 474 macros and 543 micros (total 1,017)
2023 totals were 468 macros and 475 micros (total 943)
2022 totals were 493 macros and 553 micros (total 1,046)
2021 totals were 446 macros and 450 micros (total 896)
2020 totals were 460 macros and 529 micros (total 989)
2019 totals were 478 macros and 573 micros (total 1,051)
2018 totals were 461 macros and 482 micros (total 943)
2017 totals were 454 macros and 475 micros (total 929)
2016 totals were 399 macros and 327 micros (total 726)
2015 totals were 418 macros and 339 micros (total 757)
2014 totals were 387 macros and 310 micros (total 697)
2013 totals were 371 macros and 295 micros (total 666)