Oak Eggar

Fairly widely reported from across the county, seemingly most frequent in large nature reserves.&nbsp; Absent, for no obvious reason, from most of the eastern quarter of the county, though reappearing in the band of woods that make up the border with Wiltshire.

Small Eggar

This moth flies very early in the year and the adults are not often recorded; it is far more frequently recorded through its conspicuous larval webs on (almost always, in Somerset ) Blackthorn Prunus spinosa.&nbsp; A moth with a population greatly reduced nationally by destruction and repetitive flailing of hedgerows; Somerset is one of its strongholds.&nbsp; It occurs in a band across the county, absent from west of Taunton/Bridgwater, scarce in the Mendips and northwards, and absent east of Castle Cary/Shepton Mallet, apart from around Frome where another large population in Wiltshire just spills over the border.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Brown, K.&nbsp; (2002). Some notes and observations on the Small Eggar Eriogaster lanestris&nbsp;(L.) (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) in Somerset.&nbsp; Entomologist's Record&nbsp;&nbsp;114: 88-91.

Grass Eggar

Almost certainly extinct in the county, and only known from the coastal strip between Burnham-on-Sea and Weston-super-Mare.&nbsp; The last records are from 1983 and 1995.

Grass Eggar

Lasiocampa trifolii