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National Status: Nb

Local Status: Scarce and local resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jun-Jul.

Forewing: 8-10mm.

Foodplant: Mostly cultivated varieties of Black & Red Currant.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1883	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2011	2009	2014	2013	2014
Number of records	11	12	45	39	5
Number of individuals	18	22	87	64	6
Unique positions	10	8	27	21	3
Unique locations	9	8	28	21	3
Adult records	11	12	40	34	5
Immature records	0	0	2	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 112 records from 69 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Pheromone lure: TIP. Try larger gardens, allotments, fruit-farms, with lures on on the branches of the foodplant in June or July in mid- to late afternoon.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: As with many currant-feeding species, this has become very scarce in recent years probably due to increased use of herbicides. The moths should be looked for in gardens and allotments where the larvae feed in the stems and shoots of black currant, red currant and gooseberry. The adult can be difficult to locate, even if known to be present, and hides on the stems except in bright, warm sunshine (B. MacNulty, pers. comm.). Shown as recorded from all five vice-counties on map 197 in MBGBI 2, the VC62 and VC65 records can be traced to Porritt (1883-86 and 1904) but the VC61 record is not known.

2012 (CHF): Use of pheromone lures in recent years has shown that this species is more common than previously suspected. We have recent records for all VCs except VC65.

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Yorkshire Moths
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