2024 moth year list so far = 139 macros, 82 micros (221 total) Same time last year = 77 macros, 43 micros (120 total)
Macros
May: 37, total: 139
Ruby Tiger – Seabrook – 8th May
Brown Silver-line – Heane Wood – 7th May
Scorched Wing – Heane Wood – 7th May
Small Purple-barred – Folkestone Downs – 7th May
Clay Triple-lines – Pedlinge – 6th May
Broad-barred White – Hythe – 6th May
Buttoned Snout – Cheriton – 5th May
Dark/Grey Dagger – Cheriton – 5th May
Puss Moth – Horn Street – 5th May
Heart and Dart – Hythe – 5th May
Foxglove Pug – Seabrook – 5th May
Treble-lines – Seabrook – 5th May
May Highflyer – Seabrook – 4th May
Maiden’s Blush – Seabrook – 4th May
Light Feathered Rustic – Hythe Ranges – 4th May
Marbled Coronet – Hythe Ranges – 4th May
Pale-shouldered Cloud – Cheriton – 3rd May
The Mocha – Bartholomew’s Wood – 3rd May
Small White Wave – Bartholomew’s Wood – 3rd May
Light Brocade – Cheriton – 2nd May
Hoary Footman – Hythe – 2nd May
Poplar Lutestring – Bargrove Wood – 2nd May
Garden Carpet – Cheriton – 1st May
The Seraphim – Cheriton – 1st May
Chinese Character – Seabrook – 1st May
Buff Ermine – Seabrook – 1st May
The Cinnabar – Seabrook – 1st May
Scalloped Hook-tip – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Dusky Hook-tip – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Pebble Hook-tip – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Sharp-angled Peacock – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Lunar Thorn – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Grey Birch – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
White Ermine – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May (larva)
Common Heath – Folkestone Downs – 1st May
Cryptic Fern – Folkestone Warren – 1st May
Apr: 44, total: 102
Lime-speck Pug – Cheriton – 30th Apr
Willow Beauty – Cheriton – 30th Apr
The Rivulet – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Small Waved Umber – Hythe – 30th Apr
Dark Sword-grass – Hythe – 30th Apr
Pine Hawk-moth – Folkestone Warren – 29th Apr
Green Carpet – Folkestone Warren – 29th Apr
Sallow Kitten – Folkestone Warren – 29th Apr
Knot Grass – Folkestone Warren – 29th Apr
Cabbage Moth – Hythe – 29th Apr
Pale Mottled Willow – Seabrook – 28th Apr
Tawny Shears – Hythe – 28th Apr
Chamomile Shark – Hythe – 27th Apr
Hummingbird Hawk-moth – Saltwood – 27th Apr
Iron Prominent – Seabrook – 25th Apr
Shuttle-shaped Dart – Hythe – 25th Apr
Chocolate-tip – Seabrook – 24th Apr
Common Pug – Seabrook – 19th Apr
The Nutmeg – Hythe – 19th Apr
The Spectacle – Seabrook – 17th Apr
Lesser Swallow Prominent – Seabrook – 16th Apr
Pebble Prominent – Cheriton – 14th Apr
Channel Islands Pug – Seabrook – 13th Apr
Common Carpet – Hythe – 13th Apr
Flame Shoulder – Seabrook – 12th Apr
Bright-line Brown-eye – Hythe – 12th Apr
Red Twin-spot Carpet – West Hythe – 11th Apr
Scorched Carpet – West Hythe – 11th Apr
Pale Prominent – West Hythe – 11th Apr
Oak Nycteoline – West Hythe – 11th Apr
Garden Tiger – Folkestone – 10th Apr (larva)
Pale Tussock – Seabrook – 9th Apr
Common Wave – Hythe – 9th Apr
Dew Moth – Abbotscliffe – 8th Apr (larva)
Silver Y – Cheriton – 8th Apr
White-spotted Pug – Cheriton – 7th Apr
Brimstone Moth – Seabrook – 5th Apr
Small Angle Shades – Seabrook – 5th Apr
Peach Blossom – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Frosted Green – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Small Phoenix – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Yellow-barred Brindle – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Purple Thorn – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Lunar Marbled Brown – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Swallow Prominent – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Orange Footman – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Dotted Chestnut – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Least Black Arches – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Oak Eggar – Samphire Hoe – 2nd Apr (larva)
Mar: 29, total: 53
The Herald – Seabrook – 30th Mar
Brindled Beauty – Hythe and Paraker Wood – 30th Mar
Red-green Carpet – Paraker Wood – 29th Mar
Oak-tree Pug – Seabrook – 28th Mar
Nut-tree Tussock – Paraker Wood – 21st Mar
Vine’s Rustic – Seabrook – 21st Mar (larva)
The Streamer – Folkestone Warren and Samphire Hoe – 21st Mar
Muslin Moth – Seabrook – 20th Mar
Early Tooth-striped – Gibbin’s Brook – 20th Mar
Lead-coloured Drab – Hythe – 20th Mar
Shoulder Stripe – Paraker Wood – 19th Mar
The Mullein – Cheriton – 18th Mar
Tawny Pinion – Hythe – 17th Mar
Brindled Pug – Seabrook – 16th Mar
Setaceous Hebrew Character – Seabrook – 14th Mar (larva)
Barred Tooth-striped – Folkestone Warren – 13th Mar
Mottled Grey – Folkestone Warren – 13th Mar
Waved Umber – Folkestone Warren – 13th Mar
Powdered Quaker – Folkestone Warren – 13th Mar
Early Thorn – Cheriton and Folkestone Warren – 13th Mar
The Engrailed – Chesterfield Wood – 12th Mar
Pale Pinion – Cheriton – 12th Mar
Blossom Underwing – Hythe – 10th Mar
Water Carpet – Paraker Wood – 9th Mar
The V-Pug – Paraker Wood – 9th Mar
Grey Pine Carpet – Kiln Wood – 8th Mar
Pine Beauty – Seabrook – 6th Mar
Brown-tail – Seabrook – 6th Mar (larva)
Twin-spotted Quaker – Hythe – 5th Mar
February: 13, total: 24
Early Grey – Hythe – 28th Feb
Yellow Horned – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
March Moth – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
Small Brindled Beauty – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
Grey Shoulder-knot – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
Red Chestnut – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
Clouded Drab – Cheriton – 18th Feb
Small Quaker – Seabrook – 18th Feb
Dark Chestnut – Hythe – 18th Feb
Oak Beauty – Seabrook – 15th Feb
Hebrew Character – Seabrook – 12th Feb
Double-striped Pug – Hythe – 6th Feb
Early Moth – Seabrook – 1st Feb
January: 11
Dotted Border – Folks’ Wood – 31st Jan
Spring Usher – Seabrook – 30th Jan
Angle Shades – Hythe – 30th Jan
The Chestnut – Hythe – 29th Jan
Bloxworth Snout – Hythe – 29th Jan
Common Quaker – Seabrook – 28th Jan
Pale Brindled Beauty – Heane Wood – 24th Jan
The Satellite – Heane Wood – 24th Jan
Jersey Tiger – Seabrook – 12th Jan (larva)
Winter Moth – Seabrook – 3rd Jan
Mottled Umber – Seabrook – 3rd Jan
Micros
May: 20, total: 82
Argyresthia spinosella (Blackthorn Argent) – Heane Wood – 7th May
Syndemis musculana (Dark-barred Twist) – Heane Wood – 7th May
Hysterophora maculosana (Bluebell Conch) – Folks’ Wood – 7th May
Lobesia reliquana (Oak Marble) – Hythe – 5th May
Ethmia bipunctella (Bordered Ermel) – Hythe – 5th May
Pyrausta nigrata (Wavy-barred Sable) – Folkestone Downs – 4th May
Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Carnation Tortrix) – Seabrook – 4th May
Cochylichroa atricapitana (Black-headed Conch) – Cheriton – 2nd May
Psyche casta (Common Bagworm) – Seabrook – 2nd May (larva)
Phyllonorycter messaniella (Garden Midget) – Seabrook – 1st May
Platyedra subcinerea (Mallow Groundling) – Seabrook – 1st May
Scrobipalpa acuminatella (Pointed Groundling) – Seabrook – 1st May
Phtheochroa rugosana (Rough-winged Conch) – Seabrook – 1st May
Monopis obviella (Yellow-backed Clothes Moth) – Hythe and Seabrook – 1st May
Phylloporia bistrigella (Striped Leaf-cutter) – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Black-bordered Piercer (Pammene argyrana) – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Scoparia ambigualis (Common Grey) – Gibbin’s Brook – 1st May
Pyrausta despicata (Straw-barred Pearl) – Folkestone Downs – 1st May
Pyrausta aurata (Small Purple & Gold) – Folkestone Downs – 1st May
Elachista subocellea (Brown-barred Dwarf) – Folkestone Warren – 1st May
April: 23, total: 62
Psychoides filicivora (Fern Smut) – Seabrook – 30th Apr
Eriocrania semipurpurella (Early Purple) – Gibbin’s Brook – 29th Apr (tenanted leaf-mine)
Eriocrania sangii (Large Birch Purple) – Gibbin’s Brook – 29th Apr (tenanted leaf-mine)
Cydia ulicetana (Grey Gorse Piercer) – Gibbin’s Brook – 29th Apr
Tinea pellionella (Case-bearing Clothes Moth) – Hythe – 26th Apr
Anthophila fabriciana (Common Nettle-tap) – Nickolls Quarry – 25th Apr
Paracrania chrysolepidella (Small Hazel Purple) – Bargrove Wood – 23rd Apr (tenanted leaf-mine)
Eriocrania cicatricella (Washed Purple) – Pedlinge – 20th Apr (tenanted leaf-mine)
Coleophora serratella (Common Case-bearer) – Pedlinge – 20th Apr (larva)
Tachystola acroxantha (Ruddy Streak) – Seabrook – 13th Apr
Adela reaumurella (Green Long-horn) – Pedlinge – 13th Apr
Udea ferrugalis (Rusty-dot Pearl) – Cheriton – 11th Apr
Incurvaria masculella (Feathered Bright) – West Hythe – 11th Apr
Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth) – West Hythe – 11th Apr
Agonopterix purpurea (Small Purple Flat-body) – West Hythe – 11th Apr
Agonopterix arenella (Brindled Flat-body)- West Hythe – 11th Apr
Agonopterix subpropinquella (Ruddy Flat-body) – Cheriton – 10th Apr
Esperia sulphurella (Sulphur Tubic) – Seabrook – 8th Apr
Caloptilia rufipennella (Small Red Slender) – Cheriton – 7th Apr
Caloptilia cuculipennella (Feathered Slender) – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Schreckensteinia festaliella (Bramble False-feather) – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Epinotia immundana (Common Birch Bell) – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
Musotima nitidalis (Golden-brown Fern Moth) – Folks’ Wood – 5th Apr
March: 16, total: 39
Dyseriocrania subpurpurella (Common Oak Purple)- Paraker Wood – 29th Mar
Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Brown House Moth) – Hythe – 27th Mar
Phyllonorycter trifasciella (Honeysuckle Midget) – Hythe – 27th Mar (tenanted leaf-mine)
Taleporia tubulosa (Brown Bag-worm) – Kiln Wood – 26th Mar (case)
Caloptilia stigmatella (White-triangle Slender) – Paraker Wood – 21st Mar
Ypsolopha ustella (Variable Smudge) – Paraker Wood – 21st Mar
Agonopetrix scopariella (Broom Flat-body) – Paraker Wood – 19th Mar
Alucita hexadactyla (Twenty-plume Moth) – Hythe – 19th Mar
Caloptilia honoratella (Pale Maple Slender) – Seabrook – 18th Mar
Ditula angustiorana (Red-barred Tortrix) – Palmarsh – 18th Mar (emerged from larva found 14th Jan)
Dahlica inconspicuella (Lesser Lichen Bagworm) – Abbotscliffe – 16th Mar
Metzneria aestivella (Carline Neb) – Abbotscliffe – 16th Mar (larva)
Agonopterix rotundella (Rolling Carrot Flat-body) – Folkestone Warren – 13th Mar
Agonopterix ocellana (Red-letter Flat-body) – Chesterfield Wood – 12th Mar
Mompha subbistrigella (Garden Cosmet) – Seabrook – 8th Mar
Diurnea fagella (March Tubic) – Seabrook – 1st Mar
February: 11, total: 23
Mompha miscella (Brown Cosmet) – Abbotscliffe – 27th Feb (tenanted leaf-mine)
Caloptilia betulicola (Red Birch Slender) – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
Acleris cristana (Tufted Button) – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
Acleris literana (Lichen Button) – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
Acleris ferrugana/notana (Rusty Oak/Birch Button) – Folks’ Wood – 20th Feb
Depressaria daucella (Dingy Flat-body) – Seabrook – 14th Feb
Aphomia sociella (Bee Moth) – Seabrook – 11th Feb (larva), Hythe – 6th May (adult)
Limnaecia phragmitella (Bulrush Cosmet) – Donkey Street – 11th Feb (larva)
Agonopterix alstromeriana (Brown-spot Flat-body) – Seabrook – 5th Feb
Eudonia angustea (Narrow-winged Grey) – Cheriton – 3rd Feb
Scrobipalpa costella (Winter Groundling) – Seabrook – 1st Feb
January: 12
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Beautiful Plume) – Hythe – 29th Jan
Endothenia gentianaeana (Teasel Marble) – Hillhurst Farm – 28th Jan (larva)
Tortricodes alternella (Winter Shade) – Kiln Wood – 25th Jan
Agonopterix heracliana (Common Flat-body) – Heane Wood – 24th Jan
Emmelina monodactyla (Common Plume) – Cheriton – 24th Jan
Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple-moth) – Cheriton and Hythe – 24th Jan
Stigmella aurella (Golden Pigmy) – Palmarsh – 14th Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Coptotriche marginea (Bordered Carl) – Scene Wood – 6th Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Luffia lapidella (Grey Bagworm) – Cheriton Road Cemetery – 6th Jan (larva)
Endrosis sarcitrella (White-shouldered House Moth) – Hythe – 4th Jan
Phyllonorycter leucographella (Firethorn Leaf-miner) – Hythe – 1st Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Ectoedemia heringella (New Holm-Oak Pigmy) – Hythe – 1st Jan (tenanted leaf-mine)
Previous years:
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)