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: Recorded all year, mainly May-Oct.

Forewing: 21-25mm.

Foodplant: Herbaceous and woody plants.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1929	1930	1846	1886	1960
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	9505	2586	2380	3185	1124
Number of individuals	20578	5097	3060	6829	3116
Unique positions	189	145	251	273	45
Unique locations	180	137	256	280	42
Adult records	9453	2548	2235	3059	1111
Immature records	13	2	19	12	2

For the county, we have a total of 18780 records from 895 sites. First recorded in 1846.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely recorded and often common throughout all five vice-counties, although becoming scarcer northwards. Summer specimens produce an autumn brood which is usually swelled by immigration and, in such circumstances, the species is often very numerous.

2012 (CHF): Common and widespread across the whole county. This is one of the very few species which is recorded in every month of the year. There was a significant drop in numbers in 2010 and 2011.

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

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65