| Common Name |
|
Latin Name |
|
Food plant(s) |
|
Description |
| Reed Tussock |
|
Laelia coenosa |
|
Branched bur-reed, great fen-sedge and common
reed |
|
Grey, black dorsal stripe, dorsal tufts of yellow
hairs on segments four to seven, pair of forward facing black
tufts on first ring, and rear tuft. Extinct in Britain since
1879, on the continent found locally in France, Spain, Denmark
and northern Germany. |
| Scarce
Vapourer |
|
Orgyia recens |
|
Hawthorn, oak, sallow and bramble |
|
Black or dark grey, marked white, orange-red spiracular
line, brown tufts of bristles. Mainly in woods in Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire and Norfolk. |
| The Vapourer
|
 |
Orgyia antiqua |
|
Hawthorn, blackthorn, birch, oak, lime and many
other plants |
|
Dark bluish-grey, marked with red spots, yellow
tufts of bristles and black tufts. Most of Britain. |
| Dark Tussock |
|
Dicallomera fascelina |
|
Heather, broom, sallow, bramble and other plants |
|
Black, covered with yellowish hairs, black-tipped
white tufts of bristles dorsally. Moorland, heaths, shingle
beaches and coastal sandhills of southern England, Cheshire
and Lancashire and Scottish Highlands. |
| Pale Tussock
|
|
Calliteara pudibunda |
|
Oak, birch, lime and blackthorn |
|
Greenish-yellow, black hairs, yellow tufts of
bristles dorsally. Common in England and Wales. |
| Brown-tail |
|
Euproctis chrysorrhoea |
|
Bramble, sallow, blackthorn and hawthorn |
|
Black, brown hairs, series of white marks subdorsally
and a pair of red spots dorsally. Locally abundant from Hampshire
to Suffolk, also as far north as Yorkshire. |
| Yellow-tail |
|
Euproctis similis |
|
Blackthorn, hawthorn, oak and sallow |
|
Black with black hairs on the back and grey hairs
laterally, twin broken red lines dorsally. Common throughout
most of England. |
| White
Satin Moth |
|
Leucoma salicis |
|
Sallow, poplar, aspen and willow |
|
Grey on sides and black dorsally, row of creamy-white
blotches along centre of back, and rows of reddish bristle-bearing
structures. Much of England and Wales. |
| Black
V Moth |
|
Arctornis l-nigram |
|
Sallow, poplar, elm and lime |
|
Greyish with tufts of white hairs laterally, orange
lines dorsally and subdorsally. Temporarily established on the
Essex coast from 1947 to 1960. |
| Black
Arches |
|
Lymantria monacha |
|
Oak |
|
Grey with whitish hairs and broad black marking.
Southern half of England. |
| Gypsy
Moth |
|
Lymantria dispar |
|
Apple, plum and sallow |
|
Caterpillars are gray with white side stripes
and an orange stripe along the back, covered with long hairs.
Tubercles are on each segment, those on the first 5 segments
are blue, the rest are red. Side tubercles are yellow. Notorious
pest in Europe and North America, became extinct in Britain
in 1907. |