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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Uncommon and local resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Aug-Oct.

Forewing: 15-18mm.

Foodplant: Herbaceous plants.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64
Year first recorded	1949	1883	2000	1967
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2010
Number of records	2149	39	26	94
Number of individuals	5891	34	28	275
Unique positions	42	19	5	11
Unique locations	48	19	5	16
Adult records	2145	36	26	93
Immature records	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 2308 records from 88 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: This mainly coastal species is now spreading again in Yorkshire. It has been re-recorded from its Scarborough haunts mentioned by Porritt (1883-86) and other coastal areas as well as at several new inland localities. This is unusual for this species so far north.

Beaumont, 2002:
VC63. Elland, 25.9.2000 det. HEB (PT). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

2012 (CHF): This is predominantly a coastal moth in the UK and it is doing well in Yorkshire particularly at Flamborough and Spurn. We also have two unusual inland sites where it is recorded regularly; Knaresborough where it has been known since the 1960s and in Calderdale where it was discovered in 2000 and seems to be resident. Records occasionally come from other inland sites but these seem to be wandering individuals.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65