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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, May-Jun.

Forewing: 20-24mm

Foodplant: Woody plants

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	1956	2007	1973	1956
Year last recorded	2011	2007	2011	2011
Number of records	853	1	104	1916
Number of individuals	1407	2	181	3180
Unique positions	190	1	13	408
Unique locations	147	1	14	324
Adult records	787	1	103	1782
Immature records	2	0	1	6

For the region, we have a total of 1916 records from 324 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1956.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widespread species in Britain, the larva feeding on a wide range of tree and shrub species. In Dorset, the moth has been recorded from most sites across the county. "Larvae are frequently quite abundant, but the mortality rate is high; the choice of foodplant is very frequently ivy" (W Parkinson Curtis ms). Occasional mid-summer individuals are likely to be second brood individuals. The national norm is a single brood in May and June.

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