Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

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
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.

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

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65