Summary of Moths Caught at Tayport Community Garden, Fife ABH code is from "A checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles" by Agassiz, D.J.L., Beavan, S.D. & Heckford R.J. 2013 B&F code is from "A Recorder's Log Book or Label List of Brish Buerflies and Moths" by J.D. Bradley and D.S. Fletcher. 2000

B&F Code ABH Code Scientific Name Common Name Aug 2017 Caterpillar Food-plant 15 3.001 Triodia sylvina Orange Swift 1 Herbaceous roots, including Dock and Dandelion. 873 41.002 Blastobasis adustella 1 Decaying vegetable matter. 1388 63.033 Udea lutealis 1 Bramble and many other herbaceous plants. 1305 63.089 Agriphila tristella 1 Base of grass stems. 1713 70.016 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1 Low growing herbaceous plants, inc bedstraws, primrose, dandelion and docks. 1732 70.045 Scotopteryx chenopodiata Shaded Broad-bar 1 Vetch and Clover. 1722 70.053 Xanthorhoe designata Flame Carpet 4 Various cruciferous plants, including cabbage. 1738 70.061 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1 Bedstraw 1809 70.131 Mesotype didymata Twin-spot Carpet 1 A range of plants such as blaeberry, sallow and heather. 1906 70.226 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1 Hawthorn, blackthorn, plum and occasionally rowan. 1921 70.241 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 2 Numerous deciduous trees and bushes 1937 70.258 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1 Wide range of broadleaved trees, shrubs and climbers, including hawthorn, plum, privet, birches, honeysuckle and ivy. Also some conifers. 2284 73.038 Acronicta psi Grey Dagger 1 Birch, sallow, oak, lime, hawthorn, apple, rose, rowan and other trees and shrubs 2335 73.160 Apamea scolopacina Slender Brindle 1 A range of woodland grasses, including wood millet (Milium effusum) and wood-rushes (Luzula spp.). 2321 73.162 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 3 Grasses including common couch and cock's-foot 2343x 73.169/170 Mesapamea secalis agg. Common or Lesser Common Rustic 3 Grasses including cock's-foot and fescues. 2318 73.216 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 2 Most broad-leaved trees. 2176 73.254 Cerapteryx graminis Antler Moth 4 Sheep's fescue, mat-grass, purple moor-grass, sedges and rushes. 2198 73.293 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 5 Grasses 2107 73.342 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 38 Wide range of herbaceous plants and grasses, docks, brassicas, marigolds, foxglove and meadow grass. 2109 73.345 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 2 Wide range of herbaceous plants such as common nettle, dock and foxglove. 2111 73.348 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 7 Wide range of herbaceous plants such as dead-nettle, dock, mayweed and arum lily. 2130 73.353 Xestia baja Dotted Clay 3 Common nettle, hawthorn, willows and birches. 2133 73.358 Xestia sexstrigata Six-striped Rustic 2 Bedstraw, plantain and bramble. Number of moths 87 Number of Species 24