Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 18-21mm.

Foodplant: Sallows, Hawthorn, Blackthorn, birches and other plants.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1929	1953	1845	1886	1977
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2012
Number of records	1039	208	244	311	35
Number of individuals	1975	202	293	397	55
Unique positions	87	47	63	82	6
Unique locations	92	48	62	88	6
Adult records	1006	193	200	283	33
Immature records	0	0	0	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 1837 records from 296 sites. First recorded in 1845.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely distributed but seldom common in vice-counties 61 to 64, but only recorded once from the south and occasionally from the middle of VC65. This species appears to prefer the richer or calcareous soils, and consequently is generally absent on moors and heaths.

Current status (CHF, 2011): Currently in national decline and has been lost from many areas of central Yorkshire. Numbers in VC61 however have increased and this population is becoming nationally important.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65