Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Migrant

Local Status: Abundant and fairly widespread migrant/wanderer.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: May-Sep.

Forewing: 6-8mm.

Foodplant: Various vegetables and cruciferous plants.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1859	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2015	2015
Number of records	4568	1280	883	1142	493
Number of individuals	1040721	8176	1666	6309	1375
Unique positions	134	91	92	92	25
Unique locations	124	98	84	94	20
Adult records	4548	1276	876	1108	491
Immature records	0	1	0	0	1

For the county, we have a total of 8366 records from 420 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: A well-known immigrant species, numbers fluctuate from year to year but it is usually common and sometimes extremely abundant. Widely recorded from all five vice-counties.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65