Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Very common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jul-Aug

Forewing: 28-37mm.

Foodplant: Herbaceous plants. Nettle, docks, burdocks etc.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1928	1930	1906	1886	1940
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	4013	818	219	584	354
Number of individuals	22031	1218	277	2899	600
Unique positions	137	103	95	116	36
Unique locations	140	102	88	118	33
Adult records	3939	778	134	533	349
Immature records	25	8	16	14	0

For the county, we have a total of 5988 records from 481 sites. First recorded in 1886.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Records are scattered over all five vice-counties and it is often reported as frequent to common where it does occur. However it does seem less common than formerly in some areas and being so conspicuous, it is strange that it should not be recorded more evenly if it is as common as was often said.

2012 (CHF): This moth is still widely recorded across the county but not in the numbers of twenty years ago. We still receive over 200 records per year. In July 2003, unprecedented numbers occurred at Spurn with 1683 attracted to light on 18.7.2003.

See background to species accounts. Index of Vernacular names - Search - Random Species

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65