Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Sep-Nov.

Forewing: 15-18mm.

Foodplant: 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	1982	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	1264	123	2774
Number of individuals	5600	258	11716
Unique positions	126	12	276
Unique locations	101	11	224
Adult records	1095	122	2434
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 2774 records from 224 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 species in Britain, the larva feeding nocturnally on sallow and willow (Salix spp.). In Dorset, the moth is locally common in open situations where sallow flourishes or where willows line river valleys. The Red-line Quaker is usually at low density in woodland and rare in sallow-free woods.

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