Orange Sallow

Widely if thinly distributed, and reliant on patches of the foodplant, limes <i>Tilia</i> spp.&nbsp; Unsurprisingly, it appears to be absent from areas which lack the foodplant, such as inland Exmoor and the Levels.&nbsp; It is a moth that can appear to be absent from an area yet be found by deliberate targeting, whether by placing lights under stands of elm or by searching for the larvae in their spinnings in spring.

Rufous Minor

One of a complex of three species
requiring genital dissection for definite ID.&nbsp;
Appears to be common and widespread across the county.

Middle-barred Minor

Numbers seem to have decreased
somewhat in recent years, but still common just about everywhere, being
especially abundant on high-quality, damp sites.&nbsp; 

Middle-barred Minor

Oligia fasciuncula