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Purple thorn - Iain H Leach

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  • A
    • Angle Shades
    • Annulet
    • Antler Moth
    • Apple Leaf Skeletonizer
    • Argent & Sable
    • Ashworth’s Rustic
  • B
    • Barberry Carpet
    • Barred Hook-tip
    • Barred Tooth-striped
    • Beautiful Yellow Underwing
    • Bedstraw Hawk-moth
    • Belted Beauty
    • Bird-cherry Ermine
    • Black Arches
    • Black Mountain Moth
    • Black Rustic
    • Black-veined Moth
    • Blackneck
    • Blair’s Mocha
    • Blair’s Shoulder-knot
    • Blood-vein
    • Blotched Emerald
    • Bloxworth Snout
    • Blue-bordered Carpet
    • Bordered Gothic
    • Bordered Straw
    • Bordered White
    • Box-tree moth
    • Bright Wave
    • Bright-line Brown-eye
    • Brighton Wainscot
    • Brimstone Moth
    • Brindled Beauty
    • Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
    • Broad-bordered White Underwing
    • Brown House-moth
    • Brown Silver-line
    • Brown-tail
    • Buff Arches
    • Buff Ermine
    • Buff-tip
    • Burnet Companion
    • Burnished Brass
  • C
    • Canary-shouldered Thorn
    • Case-bearing Clothes Moth
    • Chalk Carpet
    • Chestnut-coloured Carpet
    • Chimney Sweeper
    • Chinese Character
    • Chocolate-tip
    • Cinnabar
    • Cistus Forester
    • Clancy’s Rustic
    • Clifden Nonpareil
    • Cloaked Minor
    • Clouded Border
    • Clouded Buff
    • Clouded Silver
    • Cocksfoot Moth
    • Common Carpet
    • Common Clothes Moth
    • Common Emerald
    • Common Footman
    • Common Heath
    • Common Lutestring
    • Common Plume
    • Common Quaker
    • Common Rustic
    • Common Swift
    • Convolvulus Hawk-moth
    • Cream-spot Tiger
    • Crimson Speckled
    • Currant Clearwing
  • D
    • Dark Arches
    • Dark Bordered Beauty
    • Dark Crimson Underwing
    • Death’s-head Hawk-moth
    • December Moth
    • Dew Moth
    • Dewick's Plusia
    • Dingy Mocha
    • Dingy Shell
    • Dot Moth
    • Dotted Border
    • Dotted Chestnut
    • Drab Looper
    • Drinker
    • Dusky Hook-tip
    • Dusky Sallow
  • E
    • Early Grey
    • Early Thorn
    • Elephant Hawk-moth
    • Emperor Moth
    • Essex Emerald
    • Eyed Hawk-moth
  • F
    • Feathered Gothic
    • Feathered Thorn
    • Festoon
    • Fiery Clearwing
    • Figure of Eighty
    • Firethorn Leaf Miner
    • Fisher’s Estuarine Moth
    • Five-spot Burnet
    • Flame
    • Flame Shoulder
    • Forester
    • Four-spotted
    • Fox Moth
    • Foxglove Pug
    • Frosted Green
    • Frosted Orange
  • G
    • Galium Carpet
    • Garden Carpet
    • Garden Tiger
    • Ghost Moth
    • Goat Moth
    • Gold Swift
    • Grass Eggar / Pale Grass Eggar
    • Grass Emerald
    • Grass Rivulet
    • Grass Wave
    • Greater Wax Moth / Honeycomb Moth
    • Green Carpet
    • Green longhorn
    • Green Silver-lines
    • Grey Dagger
    • Grey Mountain Carpet
    • Grey Scalloped Bar
    • Ground Lackey
    • Gypsy Moth
  • H
    • Haworth's Minor
    • Heart and Dart
    • Heart moth
    • Heath Rivulet
    • Hebrew Character
    • Hornet Moth
    • Horse-Chestnut Leaf Miner
    • Humming-bird Hawk-moth
  • J
    • Jersey Emerald
    • Jersey Tiger
    • July Belle
  • K
    • Kentish Glory
  • L
    • Lace Border
    • Lackey
    • Langmaid's Yellow Underwing
    • Lappet
    • Large Emerald
    • Large Red-belted Clearwing
    • Large Yellow Underwing
    • Latticed Heath
    • Lead Belle
    • Least Minor
    • Leopard Moth
    • Lesser Treble-bar
    • Lichen Button
    • Light Brown Apple Moth
    • Light Crimson Underwing
    • Light Emerald
    • Light Orange Underwing
    • Lime Hawk-moth
    • Liquorice Piercer
    • Little Emerald
    • Little Thorn
    • Lunar Hornet Moth
  • M
    • Magpie
    • Maiden's Blush
    • Manchester Treble-bar
    • Map-winged Swift
    • Marbled Clover
    • March Moth
    • Merveille du Jour
    • Mint Moth
    • Mistletoe Marble
    • Mother of Pearl
    • Mother Shipton
    • Mottled Umber
    • Muslin Moth
  • N
    • Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
    • Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet
    • Netted Carpet
    • Netted Mountain Moth
    • New Forest Burnet
    • Northern Rustic
    • November moth
    • Nut-tree Tussock
  • O
    • Oak Beauty
    • Oak Eggar / Northern Eggar
    • Oak Hook-tip
    • Oak Lutestring
    • Oak Processionary
    • Old Lady
    • Oleander Hawk-moth
    • Orange Swift
    • Orange Underwing
    • Orange-tailed Clearwing
    • Orchard Ermine
  • P
    • Pale Brindled Beauty
    • Pale Eggar
    • Pale Tussock
    • Palpita vitrealis
    • Peach Blossom
    • Pebble Hook-tip
    • Peppered Moth
    • Pine Beauty
    • Pine Hawk-moth
    • Pine-tree Lappet
    • Pink-barred Sallow
    • Poplar Hawk-moth
    • Poplar Lutestring
    • Pretty Pinion
    • Privet Hawk-moth
    • Purple Thorn
    • Purple-bordered Gold
    • Puss moth
  • R
    • Rannoch Brindled Beauty
    • Rannoch Looper
    • Raspberry Clearwing
    • Red Carpet
    • Red Sword-grass
    • Red Twin-spot Carpet
    • Red Underwing
    • Red-belted Clearwing
    • Red-green Carpet
    • Red-necked Footman
    • Red-tipped Clearwing
    • Reed Leopard
    • Rest Harrow
    • Riband Wave
    • Rosy Underwing
    • Ruby Tiger
    • Rusty Dot Pearl
  • S
    • Sallow Clearwing
    • Satin Lutestring
    • Scalloped Hook-tip
    • Scalloped Oak
    • Scarce Forester
    • Scarce Hook-tip
    • Scarce Vapourer
    • Scarlet Tiger
    • Scorched Wing
    • Scotch Annulet
    • Scotch Burnet
    • Setaceous Hebrew Character
    • Shaded Broad-bar
    • Shark
    • Shoulder Stripe
    • Shoulder-striped Clover
    • Silky Wave
    • Silurian
    • Silver Barred
    • Silver Hook
    • Silver Y
    • Silver-ground Carpet
    • Silver-striped Hawk-moth
    • Six-belted Clearwing
    • Six-spot Burnet
    • Slender Scotch Burnet
    • Slender-striped Rufous
    • Small Argent & Sable
    • Small Chocolate-tip
    • Small Dark Yellow Underwing
    • Small Eggar
    • Small Elephant Hawk-moth
    • Small Emerald
    • Small Grass Emerald
    • Small Magpie
    • Small Purple-barred
    • Small White Wave
    • Small Yellow Underwing
    • Snout
    • Speckled Yellow
    • Spectacle
    • Spindle Ermine
    • Spurge Hawk-moth
    • Square-spot Rustic
    • Straw Dot
    • Striped Hawk-moth
    • Striped Lychnis
    • Striped Twin-spot Carpet
    • Sussex Emerald
    • Swallow Prominent
    • Swallow-tailed Moth
    • Sword-grass
  • T
    • The Chestnut
    • The Herald
    • The Mullein
    • The Satellite
    • The Streamer
    • The Tissue
    • The Vestal
    • Thrift Clearwing
    • Transparent Burnet
    • Treble-bar
    • Triangle
    • True Lover's Knot
    • Twenty-plume Moth
    • Twin-spotted Quaker
  • V
    • Vapourer
  • W
    • Weaver’s Wave
    • Welsh Clearwing
    • White Barred Clearwing
    • White Ermine
    • White-shouldered House-moth
    • White-spotted Pinion
    • White-spotted Sable
    • Willow Beauty
    • Willowherb Hawk-moth
    • Winter Moth
  • Y
    • Yellow Belle
    • Yellow Horned
    • Yellow Shell
    • Yellow-ringed Carpet
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