Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Nb

Local Status: Uncommon and restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One or two generations, Jun-Aug, (Aug-Sep).

Forewing: 10-11mm.

Foodplant: Dewberry, Bramble, Raspberry and Strawberry.

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	1905	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2008	2011	2011
Number of records	888	1	35	1848
Number of individuals	1296	1	43	2680
Unique positions	144	1	9	308
Unique locations	115	1	11	254
Adult records	785	1	34	1640
Immature records	0	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 1848 records from 254 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A species occurring mainly along the coasts of southern England, and inland in Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey, the larva feeding on dewberry (Rubus caesius), raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and strawberry (Fragaria spp.). In Dorset, until recently this species was restricted to the coastal fringe among bramble (Rubus fruticosus) and dewberry where it was at low density; it was rarely observed more than five kilometres from the coastal belt. Since 2001, the species has spread across the county and now appears to have colonised calcareous grassland sites and heathland sites containing good stocks of bramble. A partial second brood has been recorded at light traps following warm summers: West Bexington, on 26 September 2003 (R Eden), Portland, on 12 October 1995 (M Cade), Weymouth, 28 September 2001 (Dr P Sterling), Coldharbour, on 9 October 2006 (B Withers), Hurn, on 28 September 1999 (M Jeffes).

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