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Family: Crambidae   Checklist Number: 63.074

Eudonia mercurella  (Linnaeus, 1758)

Garden Grey

Common and widely recorded across the archipelago, flighting from June to October. Found in gardens, grassland, moorland and scrub. The larval food-plants are a range of mosses.

References: 
Sterling, P. & Parsons, M. (2023 second edition). Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

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