Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Nb Local Status: Rare and very local resident. Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation Flight time: May-Jun. Forewing: 16-19mm Foodplant: Seedlings of Downy and Silver Birch and also on Bog-myrtle |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | |
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Year first recorded | 1883 | 1857 | 1883 | 1883 |
Year last recorded | 1950 | 2014 | 1993 | 2014 |
Number of records | 3 | 14 | 25 | 19 |
Number of individuals | 0 | 31 | 26 | 6 |
Unique positions | 2 | 12 | 17 | 11 |
Unique locations | 3 | 9 | 17 | 8 |
Adult records | 1 | 12 | 22 | 15 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For the county, we have a total of 61 records from 37 sites. First recorded in 1857.
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Species Account
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: A local and mainly day-flying moth, seemingly now quite scarce with few records since 1970.
2012 (CHF): A National BAP species which has declined all over England though it is still doing fairly well in the north-west of Scotland. The only post-2000 records have been from its old site at Bishop Wood and in 2011 from an unexpected new site in VC62 near Boltby.
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