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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common but thinly distributed resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Aug-Sep.

Forewing: 15-18mm.

Foodplant: Ash.

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	504	62	1132
Number of individuals	1050	71	2242
Unique positions	110	5	230
Unique locations	96	5	202
Adult records	447	62	1018
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 1132 records from 202 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 on ash (Fraxinus excelsior). In Dorset, the moth is frequent in woodland on chalky soils where ash is dominant, and at low density in open habitat where ash trees are more isolated, for example in hedgerows. The moth is seldom seen in localities where ash is absent, for example just sixteen examples were recorded at Arne in more than twenty years of trapping.

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