Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Very common and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jul-Sep.

Forewing: 13-16mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees and shrubs.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1929	1930	1846	1886	1940
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	2626	934	1776	2783	518
Number of individuals	6146	1973	4912	11394	1908
Unique positions	155	158	232	249	40
Unique locations	150	157	232	256	40
Adult records	2594	894	1682	2661	507
Immature records	8	2	3	4	1

For the county, we have a total of 8637 records from 835 sites. First recorded in 1846.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely recorded in all five vice-counties and often common but always most numerous in well wooded localities. There is some evidence of an increase in the numbers of this species over the last decade.

2012 (CHF): Common and widespread across the county and numbers can be large in woodland eg 103 at Elland on 31.7.2002.

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

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65