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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: Two generations, May-Jun, Jul-Sep.

Forewing: 13-14mm.

Foodplant: Cleavers, Hedge and other Bedstraws

Regional breakdown:

 VC61VC62VC63VC64VC65
Year first recorded19261953184618861960
Year last recorded20142014201420142015
Number of records53051790186435831022
Number of individuals79473031284085452769
Unique positions26831831241472
Unique locations24629030739471
Adult records52441726177434721008
Immature records51101

For the county, we have a total of 13564 records from 1308 sites. First recorded in 1846.
 

Photos

70.061 Common Carpet 05
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70.061 Common Carpet 06 Top
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70.061 Common Carpet 04
© Andy Nunn
70.061 Common Carpet 03
© Lee Wiseman
70.061 Common Carpet 02
© Paul Kipling, 30 May 2012
70.061 Common Carpet 01
© Charles Fletcher, 2 Sep 2005

Species Account

Similar species: Wood Carpet.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Recorded from all five vice-counties and often seen more during the day when flushed from cover than at light. Several species of bedstraw are used as larval foodplants and P.Q. Winter reports finding larvae on hedge bedstraw and lady's bedstraw and observing ovipositing on cleavers.

2012 (CHF): Still extremely common and occurs all over the county.
 

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