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| Bacotia sepium | ||
| Bactra furfurana | ||
| Bactra lacteana | ||
| Bactra lancealana | ||
| Bactra robustana | ||
| Balsam Carpet | ||
| Bankesia conspurcatella | ||
| Barberry Carpet | ||
| Barred Carpet | ||
| Barred Chestnut | ||
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Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix | |
| Barred Hook-tip | An orange-brown moth with a darker central cross-band and one (rarely two) pale, brown central dot on the forewing. It can be confused with the Oak Hook-tip, but the Barred Hook-tip has a darker centr | |
| Barred Red | ||
| Barred Rivulet | ||
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Barred Sallow | |
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Barred Straw | |
| Barred Tooth-striped | ||
| Barred Umber | ||
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Barred Yellow | |
| Barrett's Marbled Coronet | ||
| Batia lambdella | ||
| Batia lunaris | ||
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Batia unitella | |
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Batrachedra praeangusta | |
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Beaded Chestnut | |
| Beautiful Arches | ||
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Beautiful Brocade | |
| Beautiful Carpet | ||
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Beautiful China-mark | |
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Beautiful Golden Y | |
| Beautiful Gothic | ||
| Beautiful Utetheisa | ||
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Beautiful Yellow Underwing | The red-brown or brown colour of the forewing, together with the marbled grey-white markings and a small white blotch near the centre of the forewing help to distinguish this species. Flies in sunshin |
| Bedellia somnulentella | ||
| Bedstraw Hawk-moth | ||
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Bee Moth | |
| Beech-green Carpet | ||
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Belted Beauty | |
| Bilberry Pug | ||
| Bilberry Tortrix | ||
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Birch Mocha | |
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Bird's Wing | |
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Bird-cherry Ermine | |
| Bisigna procerella | ||
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Black Arches | This moth has white forewing with black wavy arches which gives the moth its name.Its underside is a creamy colour with red and cream markings. Their upper body is a fawn colour and fury matching its |
| Black Mountain Moth | This is an unusual looking moth as both forewings and hindwings are similar in size. Not easily confused with other species, and the dark central band with a black spot in the middle is distinctive. | |
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Black Rustic | |
| Black V Moth | ||
| Black-banded | ||
| Black-veined Moth | ||
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Blair's Mocha | |
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Blair's Shoulder-knot | |
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Blastobasis adustella | |
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Blastobasis lacticolella | |
| Blastobasis wolffi | ||
| Blastodacna hellerella | ||
| Bleached Pug | ||
| Blomer's Rivulet | ||
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Blood-vein | |
| Blossom Underwing | ||
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Blotched Emerald | |
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Blue-bordered Carpet |
The blue or blue-grey border on the outer edge of the forewing is what gives this species its name. The darker northern form of this moth usually has a complete band of brown across the grey... |
| Bohemannia pulverosella | ||
| Bordered Beauty | ||
| Bordered Gothic | ||
| Bordered Grey | ||
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Bordered Pug | |
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Bordered White | The sexes differ in colour and there is also some colour variation between northern and southern Britain. In the south, the male has dark brown upper surfaces of the wing with pale yellow blotches nea |
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Borkhausenia fuscescens | |
| Borkhausenia minutella | ||
| Brachmia blandella | ||
| Brachmia inornatella | ||
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Bramble Shoot Moth | |
| Bright Wave | ||
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Bright-line Brown-eye | |
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Brimstone Moth | |
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Brindled Beauty | |
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Brindled Green | |
| Brindled Ochre | ||
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Brindled Pug | |
| Brindled White-spot | ||
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Broad-barred White | |
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Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth | The Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth has reddish-brown bands on the wings and abdomen but this may appear black as the hairs wear off. They feed when flying, have long clubbed antennae and are much larger |
| Broad-bordered White Underwing | The grey forewings are marked with black and have no central spot, whilst the hindwings are diagnostic in being white with a deep brown border and a dark central crescent. The moth takes to the wing a | |
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Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing | |
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Broken-barred Carpet | |
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Broom Moth | |
| Broom-tip | ||
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Brown China-mark | |
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Brown House-moth | |
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Brown Oak Tortrix | |
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Brown Rustic | |
| Brown Scallop | ||
| Brown Silver-line | ||
| Brown-dotted Clothes Moth | ||
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Brown-line Bright-eye | |
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Brown-spot Pinion | |
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Brown-tail | |
| Brussels Lace | ||
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Bryotropha affinis |