Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jul.

Forewing: 14-16mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1929	1953	1883	1883	1880
Year last recorded	2012	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	22	262	316	490	59
Number of individuals	13	299	369	758	68
Unique positions	17	65	100	117	16
Unique locations	16	64	96	114	15
Adult records	16	252	284	478	51
Immature records	0	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 1149 records from 305 sites. First recorded in 1880.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Recorded from wooded areas in all five vice-counties but only found frequently in vice-counties 62 to 64.

2012 (CHF): Numbers have declined significantly in the last twenty years and this is no longer a common moth in the county. Still unusual in the east of VC61 and in VC65.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65