The Shears

Widely distributed across the county in small numbers; from time to time recorded in gardens, but really a moth of semi-natural grassland habitat, which is most likely to be met with in numbers on the coast or on the limestone grasslands along the Mendip scarp.

Broom Moth

A moth of semi-natural, acidic habitats (despite the English name, it is not restricted to areas with broom); as a result, it is found patchily across the county where its habitat occurs.&nbsp; The populations in Exmoor and the Quantocks appear stable but there are some signs that it is losing ground in the east of the county.&nbsp; There are a number of records of the moth coastally between Burnham-on-Sea and Clevedon, suggestive of migrants.

Glaucous Shears

A declining moth essentially reliant on upland moorland, once fairly widely recorded on Exmoor and occasionally elsewhere, now possibly extinct.&nbsp; The last records for both vice-counties were in 2011, at Wiveliscombe and Luckbarrow in VC5 and Weston Moor in VC6.

Glaucous Shears

Papestra biren