Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 14-18mm.

Foodplant: Birches, Alder, Hazel and Oaks.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1883	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	97	247	207	200	15
Number of individuals	133	338	317	280	32
Unique positions	38	91	93	85	8
Unique locations	35	89	90	84	8
Adult records	89	236	181	183	14
Immature records	0	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 766 records from 306 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Locally common in wooded localities in vice-counties 61-64 but seemingly absent from the north-west (though recorded in Upper Teesdale in VC66 (Dunn & Parrack, 1986)). This is the most frequently recorded of this group of moths and is often more attracted to sugar than light.

Argus 47, 2001-04:
VC65. Magdalen Wood 13.5.2003 (JCW, SPW). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

2012 (CHF): Fairly widespread in small numbers in light woodland, especially amongst birches.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65