Summary for Nemophora fasciella
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Nemophora fasciella (Fabricius, 1775)
Horehound Longhorn
Lepidoptera: micromoths: Adelidae
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National status: Nationally Scarce A
BAP status: UKBAP
Essex RDB: Listed
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BAP status: UKBAP
Essex RDB: Listed
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Female Horehound Long-horn Moth 13th June 2022
Male Horehound Long-horn Moth 13th June 2022
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Nemophora fasciella on UK Moths website
The Horehound Long-horn Moth is a scarce species, distributed mainly in the south and south-east of England, but very local. The larval foodplant is black horehound (Ballota nigra), the larva feeding at first on the seeds and then later in a case made from fragments of the foodplant. References
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