Moths at Brandy Hole Copse
Page under development (first published 13th September 2025).
Species list comes from Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre (SxBRC) Ecological Data Search dated 2nd April 2025 in respect of Brandy Hole Copse Local Nature Reserve. Visit their
website to find out more about their work and be encouraged to make and submit your own records of what you find. Every record matters, whether a random observation, a habit, or the discipline of an intentional survey.
Photographs and further information to be added.
Useful websites include:
- Sussex Moth Group (encouraging the study and knowledge of moths in Sussex)
- British and Irish Moths (an online collection to support moth recorders by Martin Evans and Roger Edmondson)
- UK Moths
- The Wildlife Trusts
- Wildlife Insight (an online gallery of images by Steve and Claire Ogden).
The following moths have been identified in the Copse. Do let us know, if you see these or any others, and if you would be interested in participating in an evening moth survey (whatever your level, or absence, of identification skills).
As well as the bullet-point list, each entry has a heading that, when complete, will include weblinks to further information (clickable links are underlined).
CURRENT KNOWN SPECIES TALLY: 31 (as at 2nd April 2025)
- Blood-vein (Timandra comae)
- Blossom Underwing (Orthosia miniosa)
- Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae)
- Common Wainscot (Mythimna pallens)
- Cypress Carpet (Thera cupressata)
- Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthoroe ferrugata)
- Dusky Thorn (Ennomos fuscantaria)
- Feathered Gothic (Tholera decimalis)
- Great Oak Beauty (Hypomecis roboraria)
- Jersey Tiger (Euplagia quadripunctaria)
- Knot Grass moth (Acronicta rumicis)
- Little Thorn (Cepphis advenaria)
- Light Crimson Underwing (Catocala promissa)
- Long-legged Tabby (Synaphe punctalis)
- Lunar Thorn (Selenia lunularia)
- Maple Prominent (Ptilodon cucullina)
- Mottled Rustic (Caradrina morpheus)
- Mouse moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis)
- Oak Hook-tip (Watsonalla binaria)
- Ochreous Pug (Eupithecia indigata)
- Orange Footman (Eilema sororcula)
- Pied Grey (Eudonia delunella)
- Portland Ribbon Wave (Idaea degeneraria)
- Pretty Chalk Carpet (Melanthia procellata)
- Rustic (Hoplodrina blanda)
- Sallow moth (Cirrhia icteritia)
- Satin Lutestring (Tetheella fluctuosa)
- Small Phoenix (Ecliptopera silaceata)
- Spindle Knot-horn (Nephopterix angustella)
- White Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda)
- Woodland Sedge-moth (Glyphipterix forsterella)
Blood-vein (Timandra comae)
Blossom Underwing (Orthosia miniosa)
Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae)
Common Wainscot (Mythimna pallens)
Cypress Carpet (Thera cupressata)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthoroe ferrugata)
Dusky Thorn (Ennomos fuscantaria)
Feathered Gothic (Tholera decimalis)
Great Oak Beauty (Hypomecis roboraria)
Jersey Tiger (Euplagia quadripunctaria)
Knot Grass moth (Acronicta rumicis)
The Wildlife Insight website has some particularly good images and lifecycle information here.