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.
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