Greenweed Piercer

Now a very rare moth nationally.&nbsp; The only resident population is at Merryfield Airfield, where it has been known since at least 2009.&nbsp; There is one other record, from Asham Wood, near Frome, in 1937: "<i>...in 1935 I came across it accidentally in Dorset, just over the Somerset border, and have since been unsuccessfully trying to find it in this County, where it probably exists as the foodplant </i>Genista tinctoria<i>&nbsp;is abundant.&nbsp; It is probably not such a rarity as has been thought, and owing to its early appearance on the wing has been overlooked...</i>" (A. R. Hayward, 1937).&nbsp; Sadly the foodplant has declined massively since 1937 and only isolated populations remain.

Northern Cresent Piercer

A vague record from “ST45” in 1980
is the only Somerset record.

Vetch Piercer

Local on flowery, species-rich
grasslands, chiefly north of the Mendips and in the Blackdowns.

Grapholita jungiella

Vetch Piercer