Plants and animals of Pointfield

An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015   

Butterflies and moths

(Link to  gallery of species)
  Butterflies   
  Comma  Polygonum c-album
  Dark green fritillary  Argynnis aglaja
  Large white  Peiris brassica
  Meadow brown  Maniola jurtina
  Orange tip  Anthocharys caramines
  Painted lady  Vanessa cardui
  Peacock  Inachis io
  Red admiral  Vanessa atalanta
  Ringlet  Aphantopus hyperantus
  Small copper  Lycaena phalaeas 
  Large skipper   Ochlodes sylvanus
  Small skipper  Thymelicus sylvestris
  Small white  Peiris rapae
  Speckled wood  Pararge aegeria
  Tortoise shell  Aglais urticae
  Wall   Lasiommata megera
  White-letter hairstreak   Satyrium w-album
    
  Moths  
 Abrostola tripartita   Spectacled moth
 Acleris forrskaleana   Maple button
 Acleris laterana   Dark-triangle button
 Acleris sparsana  Ashy button
 Acleris variegana   Garden rose tortrix
 Acronicta psi   Grey dagger
 Agapeta hamana   Common yellow conch
 Agonopterix arenella  
 Agonopterix ?scopariella   
 Agonopterix heracliana   
 Agrochola litura   Brown spot pinion
 Agrochola lota   Red-line quaker
 Agrochola macilenta   Yellow-line quaker
 Agrophila tristella   Common grass-veneer
 Agrophila straminella   Pale grass-veneer
 Agrotis exclamationis  Heart and dart
 Agrotis puta   Shuttle-shaped dart
 Agrotis segetum   Turnip moth
 Alcis repandata   Mottled beauty
 Allophyes oxyacanthae   Green-brindled crescent
 Alsophila aescularia  March moth
 Alucita hexadactyla  Plume moth
 Amphipyra pyramidea agg.  Copper underwing
 Amphipyra tragopoginis   Mouse moth
 Anania hortulata   Small magpie
 Anthophila fabriciana   Common nettle-tap
 Apamea crenata   Clouded-bordered brindle
 Apamea monoglypha   Dark arches
 Apamea remissa   Dusky brocade
 Apamea scolopacina   Slender brindle
 Apamea unanimis   Small clouded brindle
 Aphomia sociella   Bee moth
 Arctia caja   Garden tiger
 Argyresthia conjugella   Apple fruit moth
 Atethmia centrago   Centre-barred sallow
 Autographa gamma  Silver-Y moth
 Autographa jota   Plain golden-Y
 Autographa pulchrina  Beautiful golden-Y
 Axylia putris   The flame
 Biston betularia   Peppered moth
 Blastobasis adustella   
 Blastobasis vittata   
 Borkhausenia fuscescens   Small dingy tubic
 Bupalus piniaria   Bordered white
 Cabera pusaria   Common white wave
 Campaea margaritaria   Light emerald
 Camptogramma bilineata   Yellow shell
 Caradrina morpheus   Mottled rustic
 Catocala nupta   Red underwing
 Celypha lacunana   Common marble tortrix
 Ceramica pisi   Broom moth
 Cerura vinula   Puss moth
 Chloroclysta siterata   Red-green garpet
 Chrysoteuchia culmella   Garden grass-veneer
 Cilix glaucata   Chinese character
 Cirrhia icteritia   Sallow
 Clepsis consimilana   Privet tortrix
 Cnephasia asseclana   Flax tortrix
 Cnephasia agg.   Grey tortrix agg.
 Coleophora caespitiella   Buff rush case-bearer
 Coleophora mayrella   Coleophorid moth
 Coelophora sp.   coelophorid moth
 Colocasia coryli   Nut tree tussock
 Colostygia multistrigaria   Mottled grey
 Colostygia pectinataria   Green carpet
 Colotois pennaria   Feathered thorn
 Conistra ligula  Dark chestnut
 Conistra vaccinii   Chestnut
 Cosmia trapezina   Dun-bar
 Crambus lathoniellus  Hook-streak grass-veneer
 Crambus perlella  Satin grass-veneer
 Crocallis elinguaria   Scalloped oak
 Deilephila elpenor     Elephant hawk moth
 Denticucullus pygmina  Small wainscot
 Diachrysia chrysalis  Burnished brass
 Diaphora mendica  Muslin moth
 Diarsia mendica  Ingrailed clay
 Dichrorampha alpinana   Broad-blotch drill
 Dichrorampha petiverella  Common drill
 Dioryctria abietella   Dark pine knot-horn
 Ditula angustiorana   Red-barred tortrix
 Diurnea fagella   Early tubic
 Dysstroma truncata   Common marbled carpet
 Ecliptopera silaceata   Small phoenix
 Eilema depressa   Buff footman
 Eilema lurideola   Common footman
 Endrosis sarcitrella   White shouldered house-moth
 Ennomos alniaria   Canar-shouldered thorn 
 Epinotia immundana   Common birch bell
 Epinotia ramella   Small birch bell
 Epirrita sp.   November moth agg.
 Epitonia ramella f. costana   Small birch bell
 Epirrhoe alternata   Common carpet
 Erannis defoliaria   Mottled umber
 Esperia sulphurella   Oecophorid moth
 Eudonia lacustrata   (crambid moth) 
 Eudonia mercurella   (crambid moth) 
 Eugnorisma depuncta   Plain clay
 Eupithecia abbreviata   Brindled pug
 Eupithecia exiguata   Mottled pug
 Eupithecia intricata   Edinburgh pug
 Eupithecia inturbata   Maple pug
 Eupitheca virgaureata   Golden-rod pug
 Eupithecia vulgata   Common pug
 Euplexia lucipara   Small angle shades
 Eupsilia transversa  Satellite
 Euxoa nigricans   Garden dart
 Evergestis forficalis   Garden pebble
 Gandaritis pyraliata  Barred straw
 Gortyna flavago   Frosted orange
 Grapholita compositella   Triple-stripe piercer
 Griposia aprilina   Merveille du jour
 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata   Double-striped pug
 Gypsonoma dealbana  Common cloaked shoot
 Hadina bicruris   The lychnis
 Herminia tarsipennalis     Fan-foot
 Hofmannophila pseudospretella   Brown house moth
 Hoplodrina alsines   Uncertain
 Hoplodrina ambigua   Vine's rustic
 Hoplodrina blanda   Rustic
 Hydraecia micacea   Rosy rustic
 Hydriomena furcata  July highflyer
 Hypena proboscidalis   The Snout
 Hypsopygia glaucinalis   Double-striped tabby
 Idaea aversata  Riband wave, banded form
 Idaea aversata f. remutata  Riband wave, plain form
 Idaea biselata   Small fan-footed wave
 Idaea dimidiata  Single dotted wave
 Idaea seriata   Small dusty wave
 Korscheltellus fusconebulosa  Map-winged swift
 Korscheltellus lupulina   Common swift
 Lacanobia oleracea   Bright-line brown-eye
 Lacanobia thalassina   Pale shouldered brocade
 Laothoe populae   Poplar hawkmoth
 Lateroligia ophiogramma   Double lobed
 Leucoptera laburnella  Laburnum leaf miner
 Lithophane leautieri   Blair's shoulder-knot
 Lomaspilis marginata   Clouded border
 Lozotaenia forsterana   Large ivy tortrix
 Luperina testacea   Flounced rustic
 Lyonetia clerkella   Apple leaf miner moth
 Mamestra brassica   Cabbage moth
 Mesapamea ?didyma   ?Lesser common rustic
 Mesapamea secalis agg.   Common rustic agg.
 Metzneria metzneriella   Meadow neb
 Mompha propinquella   Marbled mompha
 Mormo maura   Old lady
 Mythimna ferrago  Clay
 Mythimna impura  Smoky wainscot
 Naenia typica   Gothic
 Nematopogon swammerdamella   Large longhorn
 Nemapogon cloacella  Cork moth
 Noctua comes   Lesser yellow underwing
 Noctua fimbriata   Broad-bordered yellow underwing
 Noctua interjecta   Least yellow underwing
 Noctua janthe   Lesser broad bordered
 Noctua pronuba  Large yellow underwing
 Notocelias cynosbastella   Yellow faced bell
 Notodonta ziczac   Pebble prominent
 Ocropleura plecta   Flame shoulder
 Odontopera bidentata   Scalloped hazel
 Oligia strigilis   Marbled minor
 Oligia fasciuncula   ?Middle-barred minor
 Oligia latruncula   Tawny-barred minor 
 Omphaloscelis lunosa   Lunar underwing
 Operophtera brumata   Winter moth
 Operophtera fagata   Northern winter moth
 Opisthograptis luteolata   Brimstone
 Orthosia cerasi  Quaker noctulid
 Orthosia gothica   Hebrew character noctulid
 Orthosia incerta  Clouded drab noctulid
 Ourapteryx sambucaria   Swallowtail
 Pandemis cerasana   Barred fruit-tree tortrix
 Parasemia plantaginis   Wood tiger
 Pasiphila rectangularis   Green pug
 Peribatodes rhomboidaria   Willow beauty
 Phalera bucephala  Buff tip
 Pheosia tremula  Swallow prominent
 Phigalia pilosaria   Pale brindled beauty
 Phlogophora meticulosa   Angle-shades moth
 Phragmatobia fuliginosa   Ruby tiger
 Pleuroptya ruralis  Mother of pearl
 Plusia festucae   Gold spot
 Plutella porrectella   Plutellid moth
 Plutella  xylostella  Diamond-back moth
 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana   Yellow spot tortrix
 Psychoides filicivora   Tineid moth
 Pterophorus  pentadactyla  White plume moth
 Pyrausta despicata   Straw-barred pearl
 Rheumaptera cervinalis   Scarce tissue
 Rivula sericealis   Straw dot
 Rusina ferruginea   Brown rustic
 Scoliopteryx libatrix   The herald
 Scoparia ambigualis   Common grey
 Scoparia pyralella   Meadow grey
 Scotopteryx chenopodiata  Shaded broad-bar
 Selinia tetralunaria   Purple thorn
 Spilosoma lubricipeda   White ermine
 Spilosoma lutea   Buff ermine
 Stigmella aurella   Bramble leaf borer
 Tethea ocularis   Figure of eighty
 Thera britannica   Spruce carpet
 Thera obeliscata   Grey pine carpet
 Tholera decimalis   Feathered gothic
 Tholera cespitis   Hedge rustic
 Tiliacea citrago   Orange sallow
 Tineola bisselliella  Common carpet moth
 Tortrix viridana   Green oak tortrix
 Triodia sylvina   Orange swift
 Udea olivalis   Crambid moth
 Udea prunalis   Crambid moth
 Veilephila porcellus   Small elephant hawkmoth
 Xanthia toga   Pink barred sallow
 Xanthorhoe designata   Flame carpet
 Xanthohoe fluctuate   Garden carpet
 Xanthorhoe montanata  Silver-ground carpet
 Xestia baja   Dotted clay
 Xestia c-nigrum   Setaceous Hebrew character
 Xestia sexstrigata  Six-striped rustic
 Xestia triangulum   Double square spot 
 Xestia xanthographa   Square spot rustic
 Yponomeuta evonymella  Cherry-tree small ermine
 Yponomeuta padella  Orchard small ermine
 Yponomeuta rorrella  Willow small ermine
 Ypsolopha sequella  Pied smudge
 Ypsolopha ustella   Ypsolophid moth