Marbled Beauty

Widespread across the county,
sometimes turning up in decent numbers at garden light traps, although this
seems to be happening less frequently than formerly and numbers recorded in
general seem to have been falling steadily since the turn of the century.

Scarce Bordered Straw

An almost annual immigrant from Africa. Sometimes larvae are brought in on vegetables and flowers. Large influxes occurred in 1996, 2003, and 2006 (when more than 11,700 were recorded nationally). Turner (1955) recorded it as an occasional migrant to the county, listing records from Clevedon, Taunton and Weston-super-Mare. Since then it has occurred irregularly in small numbers, though 163 were recorded during the 2006 influx.

Tree-lichen Beauty

Mostly an immigrant species but established in south-east England by the early 2000s. The first county record was from Nettlecombe in 2012, followed by Cocklake in 2022. Since then, there has been a further sprinkling of records, including in North Somerset in 2022 and 2024 (not mapped).

Tree-lichen Beauty

Cryphia algae