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-Jul.

Forewing: 21-26mm.

Foodplant: Woody plants. Hazel, birches, Honeysuckle etc.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1883	1883	1883	1985
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2013	2013
Number of records	102	217	166	168	6
Number of individuals	114	213	123	205	7
Unique positions	36	82	80	62	6
Unique locations	34	76	85	61	6
Adult records	98	203	130	155	6
Immature records	0	2	3	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 659 records from 262 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Rather sparsely reported from vice-counties 61 to 64. The records suggest a regular but not common woodland species but it may well be under-recorded due to the present-day emphasis on light trapping rather than sugaring or larvae collecting. The larvae are reported to be often quite common on birch in spring (PQW pers. comm.).

2012 (CHF): Like a lot of moths of broadleaved woodland this species is uncommon in the north west and south east of the county due to lack of suitable habitat. Numbers have increased a little in recent years and it has colonised some new areas.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65