Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 13-16mm.

Foodplant: Cleavers and Bedstraws

IMPORTANT - Please note that the maps and accounts are provisional, subject to change and further update. The whole dataset still needs to go through the final verification process and it is likely that a very small number of records will not satisfy the present requirements and there are other records that have not been formally submitted. The information is for guidance only.

Record breakdown:

	VC9	VC8	VC5	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1960	2004	2007	1975	1960
Year last recorded	2011	2004	2007	2011	2011
Number of records	851	1	1	89	1884
Number of individuals	1330	1	2	94	2854
Unique positions	262	1	1	21	570
Unique locations	190	1	1	19	422
Adult records	771	1	1	89	1724
Immature records	0	0	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 1884 records from 422 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1960.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A common species in Britain, the larva feeding on chickweed (Stellaria spp.), dock (Rumex spp.), grasses (Gramineae spp.), and other low-growing plants. In Dorset, the moth is ubiquitous and common to abundant, and far more frequently flushed out from its hiding places during the daytime than encountered at light traps at night. The national norm is a single brood between mid-June and mid-August, but in Dorset the moth is double-brooded, the first brood between late May and early July, and a second between mid-August and late September. The peak of the first brood is, on average, twice that of the second brood.

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