Sword-grass

A species of moorland, rough pasture and open woodland. It used to be found widely in England and Wales, but its range has constricted northwards and is now largely restricted to north-east Scotland. Outside of that area it is a scarce immigrant.&nbsp; There has been a scattering of records in the county. It can be confused with Red Sword-grass.

The Conformist

This woodland species was believed to be resident in parts of south Wales and Gloucestershire in the 19th century. Since then, it has occurred as very rare immigrant, mainly along the south-east coast of England. Turner (1955) lists one county record, of a pair that was labelled as having bred at Bathampton and sold at auction in 1938: "a pair, labelled 'Ross, Bathampton', in the Baron Bouck collection, were sold at Stevens in October 1938, and are now in my collection" (A. R. Hayward (1939), Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological &amp; Natural History Society).

Blair's Shoulder-knot

A fairly recent colonist, only arriving in this country in the 1950s.&nbsp; Widespread in Somerset, though as the larval foodplant is ornamental (cypresses), it is a moth associated with urban areas.

Blair's Shoulder-knot

Lithophane leautieri