Family: Noctuidae
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2358 Saltern Ear Amphipoea fucosa Wingspan 29-35mm
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© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, local in suitable sites around coasts of England & Wales
Habitat: Saltmarshes, sand dunes, wet moorland

Laval Food Plant:

 Roots and stem bases of Grasses
Overwinters: As an egg. Pupates underground

Flight Period

2360 Ear Moth Amphipoea oculea Wingspan 29-34mm
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© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, common in suitable habitat throughout most of Britain
Habitat: Restricted to damp habitat, marshes, moolamd, saltmarshes

Laval Food Plant:

 Roots and stem bases of Grasses
Overwinters: As an egg. Pupates in an underground cell

Flight Period

2361 Rosy Rustic Hydraecia micacea Wingspan 28-45mm
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© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, common, well distributed throughout Britain
Habitat: Wide range including gardens, hedgerows, fens, pasture, marshes

Laval Food Plant:

 Wide range of low-growing plants including, Broad-leaf Dock, Sea Lavender
Overwinters: As an egg. Pupates underground without a cocoon

Flight Period

2362 Butterbur Hydraecia petasitis Wingspan 38-46mm
0

Kind Permission Jon Clifton
Status: Resident, local, recorded from Humber to the Wirral northwest
Habitat: River banks, damp fields, marshes

Laval Food Plant:

 Butterbur
Overwinters: As an egg on remains of food plant. Pupates in a chamber in a root

Flight Period

2364 Frosted Orange Gortyna flavago Wingspan 35-40mm
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© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, common, common throughout England & Wales, less common in Scotland
Habitat: Rough grassland, woodland rides, fens, marshes

Laval Food Plant:

 Robust herbaceous plants
Overwinters: As an egg. Pupates in the stem of food plant

Flight Period

2368 The Crescent Celaena leucostigma Wingspan 37-44mm
3

© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, suspected immigrant, local throughout Britain
Habitat: Fens, reed beds, marshy ground, boggy moorland

Laval Food Plant:

 Yellow Iris, and stems of marshland plants
Overwinters: As an egg. Pupates in a cocoon among leaf litter

Flight Period

2369 Bulrush Wainscot Nonagria typhae Wingspan 45-50mm
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© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, common in suitable habitat throughout most of Britain
Habitat: Fens, marshes, estuaries, margins of ponds

Laval Food Plant:

 Bulrush and Lesser Bulrush
Overwinters: As an egg. Pupates on the food plant

Flight Period

2370 Twin-spotted Wainscot Archanara geminipuncta Wingspan 27-32mm
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© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, local in suitable habitats in S, SE and E England also S Wales
Habitat: Reed beds, fens, ponds

Laval Food Plant:

 Common Reed
Overwinters: As an egg. Pupates on the stem of the food plant

Flight Period

2371 Brown-veined Wainscot Archanara dissoluta Wingspan 27-33mm
1

© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, local in suitable habitats in S, SE and E England also S Wales
Habitat: Reed beds and ditches

Laval Food Plant:

 Common Reed
Overwinters: As an egg. Pupates near the ground

Flight Period

2373 Webb's Wainscot Archanara sparganii Wingspan 32-40mm
0

© Peter Tilley
Status: Resident, Nationall Scarce B, locally in the E of England and S coast and Wales
Habitat: Reed beds, reedy ditches

Laval Food Plant:

 Common Reed
Overwinters: As an egg on the food plant. Pupates in the roots of the food plant

Flight Period

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