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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Migrant

Local Status: Scarce and local migrant/wanderer.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Dec, (mostly Aug-Nov).

Forewing: 50-55mm.

Foodplant: Bindweeds and other Convolvulaceae.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1860	1846	1877	1875	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2012	2011	2014	2013
Number of records	234	22	19	39	10
Number of individuals	206	17	4	32	7
Unique positions	38	18	16	32	6
Unique locations	42	17	16	32	6
Adult records	222	21	13	35	10
Immature records	9	0	1	2	0

For the county, we have a total of 324 records from 113 sites. First recorded in 1846.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: This migrant turns up somewhere in the County in most years and has been recorded from all five vice-counties (map 1 MBGBI 9). Recently it was most frequent in 1976 when presumably the hot summer all over Europe was favourable to it, and again in 1984. In the latter year only two imagines were recorded (in VC61 and VC64) but over ten larvae were found in vice-counties 61 and 62. This was unusual as most records are of imagines with only occasional larvae in the south of the County.

Beaumont, 2002: This moth continues to be recorded regularly in autumn, most frequently near the coast but sometimes also well inland. Recorded in spring for first time.

2012 (CHF): It has continued to turn up every year, usually in September, with a record 49 in the great migrant year of 2006. Larvae were found at Spurn on several occasions in 2003 and 4. There are recent records for all five vice-counties.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65