Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Common and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Apr-May.

Forewing: 15-19mm.

Foodplant: Herbaceous and woody plants.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1953	1832	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2015
Number of records	3124	245	395	923	352
Number of individuals	10921	272	603	3398	804
Unique positions	100	43	75	112	21
Unique locations	102	41	74	115	19
Adult records	3108	234	373	802	347
Immature records	3	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 5039 records from 351 sites. First recorded in 1832.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widespread in vice-counties 61 to 64 and often common among sallows in the south of the County. Only recorded from one site in the south of VC65 (Baldersby St James, 1982 and 1984 (RIS trap 315, TAP)).

2012 (CHF): Widespread and common across most of the county and numbers seem to have increased a little recently. This species flies a little later than the other Orthosia species.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65