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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Common and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jul.

Forewing: 11-14mm.

Foodplant: Aspen, poplars, sallows ad 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	VC5	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1905	2008	1975	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2008	2011	2011
Number of records	2630	1	162	5586
Number of individuals	5430	1	301	11464
Unique positions	369	1	23	786
Unique locations	257	1	18	552
Adult records	2328	1	161	4980
Immature records	4	0	0	8

For the region, we have a total of 5586 records from 552 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widespread but sometimes local and single brooded species in Britain, the larva feeding on sallow (Salix spp.), poplar (Populus spp.) and hazel (Corylus avellana). In Dorset the moth is common in damp woodland and in wetland where sallow grows, and frequent in woodland where hazel is an abundant understory shrub. The national norm is of a single summer brood, but a partial bivoltine cycle in addition to the single summer brood is suggested by the county data.

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