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

Forewing: 13-14mm.

Foodplant: Cleavers, Hedge and other Bedstraws

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1926	1953	1846	1886	1960
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2015
Number of records	5305	1790	1864	3583	1022
Number of individuals	7947	3031	2840	8545	2769
Unique positions	268	318	312	414	72
Unique locations	246	290	307	394	71
Adult records	5244	1726	1774	3472	1008
Immature records	5	1	1	0	1

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

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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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