Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Abundant and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: Two generations, Jun-Jul, Aug-Oct.

Forewing: 14-17mm.

Foodplant: Grasses.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1929	1930	1940	1886	1946
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	8080	2312	1724	2781	1021
Number of individuals	27231	7927	3903	12477	4292
Unique positions	201	154	219	207	47
Unique locations	203	154	217	219	43
Adult records	8006	2254	1649	2654	1011
Immature records	21	3	0	0	1

For the county, we have a total of 15918 records from 836 sites. First recorded in 1886.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely distributed and usually common in all five vice-counties. However in one area of Rotherham numbers are reported to have fallen steadily since the mid 1940s and it is commented that the larvae and foodplants are similar to those of M. impura (Hubner) which has shown no signs of decreasing over the same period (Barringer & Ely, 1979).

2012 (CHF): Common and widespread across all of the county in good numbers. From about 1994 a second brood has grown and now in most years outnumbers the first. The broods overlap with peaks in July and September.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65