Hello, from Steve Garten and welcome to my weird and wonderful world of moths.
I’m amateur Lepidopterist, I trap and record moth species on my six acre wildlife meadow at Tibenham Norfolk, UK.
The list of moths listed in this Macro-moths blog and the Micro Moths blog are the species I have recorded since 2015.
Brown-tail, Euproctis chrysorrhoea.
The moth is from the family of Erebidae, subfamily Lymantriinae
.It Is a medium-sized macro moth, with a wingspan of 36 to 42 mm.
The moth as one generation and its flight season is from July to August.
The moth's habitat is mainly—Scrub, hedges and gardens containing the larval foodplants.
The larva appears from late August to May.
The eggs are laid in batches covered in hair from the female's abdomen.
The Laval webs are usually on low growth, in open conditions exposed to the sun.
They feed in a communal web on the leaves of Hawthorn and Blackthorn.
The hairs of the caterpillars cause extreme irritation if in contact with human skin.
It then pupates in a cocoon formed among foliage or leaf litter, sometimes communally.
The moth is a local resident species mainly found or near the coast of the UK