Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Migrant Local Status: Abundant and widespread migrant/wanderer. Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation Flight time: Recorded all year, mainly May-Sep. Forewing: 13-21mm. Foodplant: Many plants. |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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Year first recorded | 1884 | 1930 | 1846 | 1886 | 1960 |
Year last recorded | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2015 |
Number of records | 13891 | 4432 | 4335 | 6450 | 1727 |
Number of individuals | 238682 | 14749 | 10961 | 21359 | 5233 |
Unique positions | 398 | 446 | 399 | 520 | 125 |
Unique locations | 338 | 398 | 373 | 517 | 116 |
Adult records | 13764 | 4348 | 4153 | 6273 | 1709 |
Immature records | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
For the county, we have a total of 30835 records from 1742 sites. First recorded in 1846.
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Species Account
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: A ubiquitous migrant, recorded from all five vice-counties. It often becomes common in the autumn when home-bred specimens mix with further migrants.
2012 (CHF): The most widely-recorded species in the county with records in every month of the year. Numbers vary from year to year - the migrant autumn of 2006 producing the most records.
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