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Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Nb

Local Status: Scarce and restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jul, (Aug).

Forewing: 10-12mm.

Foodplant: Sallows and willows.

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	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1905	1985	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	514	142	1312
Number of individuals	804	215	2038
Unique positions	127	15	284
Unique locations	101	14	230
Adult records	482	140	1244
Immature records	2	0	4

For the region, we have a total of 1312 records from 230 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

Similar species: 1033 Tortrix viridana (Green Oak Tortrix) and 2419 Earias insulana (Egyptian Bollworm).

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A local wetland species mainly in south-east England and East Anglia, the larva feeds within spun terminal shoots of willow and sallow (Salix spp.). In Dorset, the moth is frequent in wetland across the Poole Basin where it colonises sallow-rich heathland, fens and river valleys. It is also locally frequent in coastal situations on the Fleet, at Radipole and at Lodmoor, and in Christchurch Harbour. Dispersed singletons are very occasionally trapped some distance away from core habitat. A partial second generation appears in most warm summers from early August onwards. The species is well established in the Poole Basin, and threats posed to its sallow-rich habitats are considered to be minimal, but maintaining viable stocks of sallow on wetland reserves would undoubtedly be beneficial to the species in the county.

Hill, L., 2013: Superficially similar to the micro-moth Green Oak Tortrix¹⁰³³ which at rest is much flatter, lacks the white-edged costa and has a grey, not a white, hindwing.

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