Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

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
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.

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

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65