Dagnam Park's recorded Butterflies
Below the list are representative photos, all taken in Dagnam Park, in alphabetical order. If they are not credited otherwise they were taken by Don Tait.
Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni)
Brown Argus (Aricia agestis)
Clouded Yellow (Colias crocea)
Comma (Polygonia c-album)
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)
Essex Skipper. (Thymelicus lineola)
Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus)
Green-veined White (Artogeia napi)
Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus)
Large Skipper (Ochlodes venatus)
Large White (Pieris brassicae)
Marbled White (Melanargia galathea)
Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina)
Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines)
Painted Lady (Cynthia cardui)
Peacock (Inachis io)
Purple Hairstreak (Quercusia quercus)
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus)
Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia)
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus)
Small Skipper (Thymelicus flavus)
Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
Small White (Artogeia rapae)
Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)
Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) (last recorded in 1994)
White-letter Hairstreak (Strymonidia w-album)
Dagnam Park Butterfly Photo Gallery
Moths
Dagnam Park's recorded moths with their scientific and English names if available.
The list is linked to the photos many of which were taken in the park, though most of Graham Ekins images are from his own files. The list is woefully incomplete. There are more than 2,500 British moths. No serious study of the moths in the park has ever been undertaken. Our thanks go to Graham Ekins of the Essex Field Club for identifying almost all of these moths and to Graham and Alan Emmerson for undertaking a light trapping excercise in the park in June 2018. Del Smith
Oak Eggar Lasiocampa quercus
Orange Footman Eilema sororcula
Pale Shouldered BrocadeIncurvaria mascullela
Plum Tortix Hedya pruniana
Red-barred TortrixDitula angustiorana
Scarce Silver-lines Bena bicolorana
Scorched Wing Plagodis dolabraria
Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta
Silver Ground Carpet Xanthorhoe montanata
Silver Y Autographa gamma
Six Spot Burnet Zygaena filipendulae
Small Dusty Wave Idaea seriata
Small Fan-foot Herminia grisealis
Small Mottled Willow Spodoptera exigua
Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura
Snout Hypena proboscidalis
Straw Dot Ruvula sericealis
Sulphur Tubic Esperia sulphurella
Treble Brown Spot Idaea trigeminata
Turnip Moth Agrotis segetum
Variegated Golden Tortrix Archips xylosteana
White Ermine Spilosoma lubricipeda
Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria
Yellow Satin Veneer Crambus perlella
Yellow Shell Camptogramma bilineata
Yellow Barred Long Horn Nemophora degeerella
No English NameAlabonia geoffrella
No English NameAleimma loeflingiana
No English NameCelypha lacunana
No English NameChrysoteuchia culmella
No English NameClepsis consimilana
No English NameCrambus lathoniellus
No English NameCrambus pascuella
No English NameElachista albifrontella
No English NameEphestia woodiella
No English NameEpinotia abbreviana
No English NameEudonia mercurella
No English NameEudonia pallida
No English NameHomoeosoma sinuella
No English NameLozotaenia forsterana
No English NameMorophaga choragella
No English NameNotocelia cynosbatella
No English NamePhyllonorycter tenerella
No English NameScoparia ambigualis
No English NameSyndemis musculana
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A Grass Moth (one of many)Agriphila straminella
Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa
Antler Cerapteryx graminis
Apple Leaf MinerLyonetia clerkella
Ash Bud Moth Prays fraxinella
Barred Fruit-tree TortrixPandemis cerasana
Barred Yellow Cidaria fulvata
Beautiful Hook-tip Laspeyria flexula
Bee Moth Aphomia sociella
Blood Vein Timandra comae
Blotched Emerald Comibaena bajularia
Box Moth Cydalima perspectalis
Brimstone Opisthograptis luteolata
Brown-tail Moth Euproctis chrysorrhoea
Bramble Shoot Moth Notocelia uddmanniana
Buff Tip Phalera bucephala
Burnet Companion Euclidia glyphica
Cherry Bark TortrixEnarmonia formosana
Cinnabar Tyria jacobaeae
Cocksfoot Moth Glyphipterix simpliciella
Clouded Silver Lomographa temerata
Common Carpet Epirrhoe alternata
Common Marble Celypha lacunana
Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata
Common Sweep Psyche casta
Common Swift korscheltellus lupulina
Common Tubic Alabonia geoffrella
Common Wainscot Mythimna pallens
Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha
Dingy Footman Eilema griseola
Dotted Fan-foot Macrochilo cribrumalis
Double-striped Pug Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
Drinker Philudoria potatoria
Flame Axylia putris
Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta
Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata
Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella
Green Longhorn Adela reumurella
Green Oak Tortrix Tortrix viridana
Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata
Green Silver-lines Pseudoips prasinana
Grey Pug Eupithecia subfuscata
Heart & Club Agrotis clavis
Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis
Ingrailed Clay Diarsia mendica
Jersey Tiger Euplagia quadripunctaria
Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana
Light Emerald Campaea margaritaria
Maiden's Blush Codonia punctaria
Maple Prominent Ptilodon cucullina
Marbled Minor agg Oligia strigilis agg.
Marbled Orchard TortrixHedya nubiferana
Marbled White Spot Deltote pygarga
Middle-barred Minor Oligia fasciuncula
Mint Moth Pyrausta aurata
Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis
Mother Shipton Callistege mi
Mottled Rustic Caradrina morpheus
Nettle Tap Anthophila fabriciana