Alabonia geofrella – this stunning little moth is a woodland species, the caterpillars feeding on the decaying twigs of such plants as blackthorn and bramble. Pound Wood, Essex; June 2020.Dasycera oliviella – a beautiful and rather scarce moth. The larvae feed on dead and decaying wood. Little Haven Nature Reserve, Thundersley, Essex; June 2014.Esperia sulphurella – a very small (hardly more than a centimetre long) and attractive little moth. Larvae feed on dead wood; Essex, 2016.
