Drab Looper

A nationally scarce moth of open, sheltered, sunny, semi-natural woodland. It flies by day, in sunny weather. Larval foodplant is Wood Spurge. Historically very rare and local in north Somerset, around Bath, Brislington, Weston-super-mare, Portishead and Downhead. Not recorded since the early 1980s.

Welsh Wave

A species of open woodland, mainly Rowan, and moorland, so in Somerset is restricted largely to Exmoor and the Quantocks. Recorded in small numbers and not annually. Rest on tree-trunks or rocks during the day but also comes to light.

Blomer's Rivulet

&nbsp;“…the
localities in which it is found are wooded hillsides with a thin undergrowth of
wych elm” (J. Mason, Clevedon, Ent. Rec 1890).&nbsp;
A moth of damp ravine woodlands with good populations of its sole foodplant, Wych Elm Ulmus glabra.&nbsp; It is often met with in these situations in the Mendips and northwards to the Bristol area, and in a scatter of other areas around the county, Orchard Wood in the Blackdowns being a particular hot-spot.

Blomer's Rivulet

Venusia blomeri