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Gardens are important for moths. While You can also increase moth numbers most butterflies, birds and other wildlife through simple sensitive gardening just visit to look for food, our gardens practices such as reducing chemical use; provide a year-round home for many moths, having plants rather than concrete, decking Eyed Hawk-moth Drinker Dot Moth Red Underwing throughout their life-cycles. Moths are also or gravel; leaving an area for long grass and May-Jul Jul-Aug Jun-Aug Aug-Oct important for gardens. They are a vital part wild plants; and not tidying up all dead plant of the garden ecosystem, pollinating flowers matter at the end of the year (caterpillars and providing food for other garden wildlife and pupae spend the winter here). Even a like birds, bats, toads and hedgehogs. For small garden can easily support over a example, each brood of Blue Tit chicks will hundred species, and you may find many eat about 15,000 moth caterpillars! more if yours adjoins other suitable gardens or has trees nearby. This leaflet shows only Flame Shoulder Frosted Orange Common Swift Brimstone Moth Pale Tussock Green Carpet Garden Carpet Many of the UK’s 2,500 species of moths a selection of the moths that could be in Apr-Sep Aug-Oct May-Jul Apr-Oct May-Jun May-Sep Apr-Sep can be found in gardens. In general, your garden, but the back page gives gardens with a greater mix of plants and sources of information about more species. more diverse structure (i.e. shrubs and trees as well as grass and flowers) will support Many moths, including garden species, a wider variety of moths. This is because are in serious decline. For example, Garden some moth caterpillars only feed on tree Tiger numbers have decreased by 92% Merveille du Jour Spectacle Chinese Character Swallow-tailed Moth Riband Wave Snout leaves, some only on grasses, and others since the late 1960s. Butterfly Conservation Sep-Oct May-Sep Apr-Sep Jun-Aug Jun-Oct Jun-Oct on herbaceous plants. Native trees like oak has established the Moths Count project and willow are especially good for moths, and its National Moth Recording Scheme even if they’re pruned to limit size. to raise awareness and improve knowledge and conservation of UK moths. You can Blood-vein contribute to this work by passing on your May-Nov sightings (records) of garden moths. Records from gardens are very important Light Emerald Common Footman Setaceous Hebrew Character Herald Lackey Peppered Moth to help build a picture of which moths are May-Sep Jul-Aug May-Oct Mar-Nov Jul-Aug May-Aug faring well and which are in decline.
For more information about moths, moth recording and the Moths Count project visit www.mothscount.org
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