Biodiversity Action Plans for moths
As with many other species many moths are threatened by habitat destruction
and changes to their environment.
The UK Biodiversity Action Plan for Priority Moths highlights many species
which are threatened, a number of which have been recorded in Cornwall.
Cornwall's Biodiversity Volume One contains details of a full audit and lists
priorities for all Cornish BAP species. Volume Two contains the
action plans for each species or habitat.
Both volumes can be obtained from the Cornwall
Wildlife Trust.
National Moth Night targets different BAP species
each year. Our group will be holding an extra special event in 2004.
The UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority
Moths are:
- Argent and Sable *
- Ashworth’s Rustic
- Barberry Carpet
- Barred Tooth-striped
- Belted Beauty
- Black-banded *
- Black-veined Moth
- Bordered Gothic *
- Bright Wave
- Brighton Wainscot
- Buttoned Snout *
- Chalk Carpet *
- Clay Fan-foot
- Coleophora tricolor
- Common Fan-foot *
- Cousin German
- Dark Bordered Beauty
- Dark Crimson Underwing
- Dingy Mocha
- Double Line *
- Drab Looper
- Essex Emerald
- Fiery Clearwing
- Four-spotted *
- Heart Moth
- Light Crimson Underwing
- Lunar Yellow Underwing *
- Marsh Mallow Moth
- Marsh Moth *
- Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth *
- Netted Carpet
- Netted Mountain Moth
- New Forest Burnet
- Northern Dart
- Olive Crescent
- Orange Upperwing *
- Pale Shining Brown *
- Reddish Buff *
- Scarce Blackneck *
- Scarce Merveille du Jour *
- Silky Wave *
- Slender Scotch Burnet
- Small Lappet
- Speckled Footman
- Square-spotted Clay *
- Straw Belle *
- Striped Lychnis *
- Sword Grass *
- Toadflax Brocade
- Waved Carpet *
- White-line Snout *
- White Spot
- White-spotted Pinion *
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