Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Abundant and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: Mar-May.

Forewing: 13-17mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees. Birches, sallows, oaks, Hazel.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1929	1939	1926	1940	1976
Year last recorded	2015	2014	2015	2015	2015
Number of records	5253	2416	2632	4277	980
Number of individuals	23202	12375	17593	39056	9676
Unique positions	129	130	179	207	42
Unique locations	129	128	175	219	43
Adult records	5221	2385	2561	3975	972
Immature records	13	0	9	6	0

For the county, we have a total of 15558 records from 694 sites. First recorded in 1926.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Frequent to common throughout all five vice-counties and a major feature of the spring insect fauna. The larvae feed on a wide variety of trees including hawthorn, ash and oak (PQW pers. comm.).

Beaumont, 2002:
VC63. Elland, 3.12.2000 (Talbot, 2001). An exceptionally early occurrence of a moth that usually flies February to early May.

2012 (CHF): Widespread and common across all of the county and often appearing in huge numbers eg 916 on 9.4.2010 at Ellington Banks. There were more December records in 2004 and 2011.

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

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65