Oak Rustic

A recent colonist, first recorded in Britain in 1999, which has become local in south coastal areas from Devon east to Sussex. Outside of these areas it appears to be a scarce immigrant. It occupies woodlands, gardens and hedgerow, where its larval foodplant is evergreen Oak.&nbsp; First recorded in Somerset in 2018, its status in the county is unclear but records in four consecutive years from the fringes of Taunton suggest a resident population.

The Suspected

A widely distributed resident and immigrant moth of fens, woodland, heathland and moorland, scarcer in the west. Turner (1955) listed it as rare and local. Most modern county records unsurprisingly come from the Quantocks and Avalon Marshes. The larval foodplant is birch.

Dingy Shears

Always a local moth, this species appears to be becoming scarcer.&nbsp; It is very patchily distributed, and appears to be absent from a large section of central Somerset including the Levels and Mendips.

Dingy Shears

Apterogenum ypsillon