Species Details

ABH: 63.074

BF: 1344

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Scopariinae

Taxon: Eudonia mercurella

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Garden Grey

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats, including woodland and gardens, throughout Britain. Distinguished from other Scopariinae by the generally dark forewings and X-shaped configuration of cross-lines which occupies the whole of the subterminal region [Goater]. Larva feeds on various mosses, often on walls and tree trunks.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 16 — 19 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 12 May (2025) — 27 Oct (2014)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Musci.

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 2 — Care needed to identify 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/eudonia-mercurella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 228

Individuals: 248

Earliest Year: 1995

Latest Year: 2025

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