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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 10-12mm.

Foodplant: Lichens.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1949	1883	1847	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	59	253	52	1416	107
Number of individuals	78	566	55	9693	245
Unique positions	11	59	26	170	36
Unique locations	13	60	26	164	36
Adult records	59	246	45	1384	99
Immature records	0	1	0	7	2

For the county, we have a total of 1887 records from 299 sites. First recorded in 1847.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Rather local in Yorkshire, and rare in industrial areas where lichens are scarce. In the high pastures of the Dales the larvae live in dry stone walls, coming out at night to feed on the lichens on the stones.

2012 (CHF): This is very much a moth of the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors, especially in calcareous areas. In the south and east of the county it is much more unusual, though there are several records from Spurn. Sometimes it can be numerous eg 424 on 3.7.2009 on the YNU outing to Kettlewell.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65