Potteric Carr Nature Reserve
Moths
Amongst the species
recorded are Red-tipped Clearwing Synanthedon formicaeformis, Apodia
bifracella,
Strathmopoda pedella,
Scarce Vapourer Orgyia
recens, Wormwood Cucullia absinthii, Crescent Striped
Apamea
oblonga, Brown-veined Wainscot Archanara dissoluta, Cream-bordered
Green Pea Earias clorana.
| Orange Swift | Hepialus sylvina |
| Nemophora degeerella | Nemophora degeerella |
| Six-spot Burnet | Zygaena filipendula |
| Caloptilia elongella | Caloptilia elongella |
| Red-tipped Clearwing | Synanthedon caliciformis |
| Orchard Ermine | Yponomeuta padella |
| Coleophora flavipenella | Coleophora flavipenella |
| Eulamprotes atrella | Eulamprotes atrella |
| Syncopacma larseniella | Syncopacma larseniella |
| Agapeta hamana | Agapeta hamana |
| Aethes beatricella | Aethes beatricella |
| Agriphila tristella | Agriphila tristella |
| Brown China Mark | Elophila nymphaeata |
| Mother of Pearl | Pleuroptya ruralis |
| Gold Triangle (Fringed) | Hypsopygia costalis |
| Drinker Moth | Philudoria potatoria |
| Scalloped Hook-tip | Falcaria lacertinaria |
| Pebble Hook-tip | Drepana falcataria |
| Peach Blossom | Thyatira batis |
| Buff Arches | Habrosyne pyritoides |
| Grass Emerald | Pseudoterpna pruinata |
| Large emerald | Geometra papilionaria |
| Common Emerald | Hemithea aestivaria |
| Blood Vein | Timandra griseata |
| Small Blood-vein | Scopula imitaria |
| Cream Wave | Scopula floslactata |
| Dwarf Cream Wave | Idaea fuscovenosa |
| Riband Wave | Idaea aversata |
| Plain Wave | Idaea straminata |
| Oblique Carpet | Orthonama vittata |
| Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet | Xanthorhoe ferrugata |
| Silver Ground Carpet | Xanthorhoe montanata |
| Garden Carpet | Xanthorhoe fluctuata |
| Shaded Broad Bar | Scotopteryx chenopodiata |
| Common Carpet | Epirrhoe alternata |
| Yellow Shell | Camptogramma bilineata |
| Dark Spinach | Pelarga comitata |
| Spinach | Eulithis mellinata |
| Barred Straw | Eulithis pyraliata |
| Small Phoenix | Ecliptopera silaceata |
| Barred Yellow | Cidaria fulvata |
| Green Carpet | Colostygia pectinataria |
| July Highflyer | Hydriomena furcata |
| May Highflyer | Hydriomena impluviata |
| Small Waved Umber | Horisme vitalbata |
| Small Rivulet | Perizoma alchemillata |
| Sandy Carpet | Perizoma flavofasciata |
| Haworth's Pug | Eupithecia haworthiata |
| Marsh Pug | Eupithecia pygmaeata |
| Bordered Pug | Eupithecia succenturiata |
| Streak (The) | Chesias legatella |
| Treble-bar | Aplocera plagiata |
| Dingy Shell | Euchoeca nebulata |
| Clouded Border | Lomaspilis marginata |
| Latticed Heath | Semiothisa clathrata |
| Scorched Wing | Plagodis dolabraria |
| Brimstone Moth | Opisthograptis luteolata |
| Bordered Beauty | Epione repandaria |
| Dusky Thorn | Epione fuscantaria |
| September Thorn | Epione erosaria |
| Purple Thorn | Selenia tetralunaria |
| Willow Beauty | Peribatodes rhomboidaria |
| Mottled Beauty | Alcis repandata |
| Engrailed (The) | Ectropis bistortata |
| Common White Wave | Cabera pusaria |
| Common Wave | Cabera exanthemata |
| Clouded Silver | Lomographa temerata |
| Light Emerald | Campaea margaritata |
| Lime Hawk-moth | Mimas tiliae |
| Poplar Hawk Moth | Laothoe populi |
| Latticed Heath | Semiothisa clathrata |
| Elephant Hawk-moth | Deilephila elpenor |
| Buff-tip | Phalera bacephala |
| Sallow Kitten | Furcula furcula |
| Iron Prominent | Notodonta dromedarius |
| Pebble Prominent | Eligmodonta ziczac |
| Swallow Prominent | Pheosia gnoma |
| Coxcomb Prominent | Ptilodon capucina |
| Pale Prominent | Pterostoma palpina |
| Lunar Marbled Brown | Drymonia ruficornis |
| Scarce Vapourer | Orgyia recens |
| Yellow-tail Moth | Euproctis similis |
| White Satin | Leucoma salicis |
| Common Footman | Eilema lurideola |
| Ruby Tiger | Phragmatobia fuliginosa |
| Cinnabar | Tyria jacobaeae |
| White-line Dart | Leucoma salicis |
| Garden Dart | Euxoa nigricans |
| Heart and Dart | Agrotis exclamationis |
| Shuttle-shaped Dart | Agrotis puta |
| Crescent Dart | Agrotis trux |
| Flame Shoulder | Ochropleura plecta |
| Large Yellow Underwing | Noctua pronuba |
| Lesser Yellow Underwing | Noctua comes |
| Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing | Noctua janthinas |
| Double Dart | Graphiphora augur |
| Barred Chestnut | Diarsia dahlii |
| Double Square-spot | Xestia triangulum |
| Nutmeg (The) | Discestra trifolii |
| Grey Arches | Polia nebulosa |
| Pale-shouldered Brocade | Lacanobia thalassima |
| Broad-barred White | Hecatera bicolorata |
| Tawny Shears | Hadera perplexa |
| Marbled Coronet | Hadera confusa |
| Clay (The) | Mythimna ferrago |
| Smoky Wainscot | Mythimna impura |
| Comon Wainscot | Mythimna pallens |
| Chamomile Shark | Cucullia chamomillae |
| Mullein | Cucullia verbasci |
| Minor Shoulder-knot | Brachtlomia viminalis |
| Grey Chi | Antitype chi |
| Suspected (The) | Parasichtis suspecta |
| Poplar Grey | Acronicta megacephala |
| Alder Moth | Acronicta alni |
| Dark Dagger | Acronicta tridens |
| Grey Dagger | Acronicta psi |
| Knot Grass | Acronicta rumicis |
| Mouse Moth | Amphipyra tragopoginis |
| Angle Shades | Phlogophora meticulosa |
| Dun-Bar | Cosmia trapezina |
| Dark Arches | Apamea monoglypha |
| Light Arches | Apamea lithoxylaea |
| Dusky Brocade | Apamea remissa |
| Double Lobed | Apamea ophiogramma |
| Tawny Marbled Minor | Oligia latruncula |
| Cloaked Minor | Mesoligia furuncula |
| Common Rustic | Mesapamea secalis |
| Small Wainscot | Photedes pygmina |
| Dusky Sallow | Eremobia ochroleuca |
| Flounced Rustic | Luperina testacea |
| Crescent | Celaena leucostigma |
| Bulrush Wainscot | Nonagria typhae |
| Brown-veined Wainscot | Archanara dissoluta |
| Rush Wainscot | Archanara algae |
| Large Wainscot | Rhizedra lutosa |
| Fen Wainscot | Arenostole phragmitidis |
| Uncertain (The) | Hoplodrina alsines |
| Silky Wainscot | Chilodes maritimus |
| Small Yellow Underwing | Panameria tenebrata |
| Scarce Silver Lines | Bena prasinana |
| Burnished Brass | Diachrysia chrysitis |
| Silver Y | Autographa gamma |
| Spectacle | Abrostola triplasia |
| Red Underwing | Catocala nupta |
| Mother Shipton | Callistege mi |
| Burnet Companion | Euclidia glyphia |
| Blackneck | Lygephila partinum |
| Snout | Hypena proboscisalis |