Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Aug-Oct.

Forewing: 16-19mm.

Foodplant: Herbaceous plants. Thistles, burdocks and Foxglove.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1883	1883	1883	1976
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	1795	527	457	753	240
Number of individuals	2543	782	599	1445	415
Unique positions	88	54	75	111	22
Unique locations	91	51	72	120	22
Adult records	1777	520	430	688	237
Immature records	2	0	0	0	1

For the county, we have a total of 3772 records from 356 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely recorded but rarely common in all five vice-counties. The larvae and pupae can often be found in stems of creeping thistle and ragwort. This is another species which is very common in the South of Britain, becoming scarcer towards the North.

2012 (CHF): Fairly common and widespread across the county. Numbers seem to have increased a little recently and it is doing better in the north than it appeared to be doing in 1989.

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

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65