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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, Feb-May.

Forewing: 12-15mm.

Foodplant: Oaks. Downy Birch, sallows, Hazel.

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	1955	1983	1955
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	1885	305	4380
Number of individuals	17750	5101	45702
Unique positions	180	12	384
Unique locations	142	12	308
Adult records	1786	304	4180
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 4380 records from 308 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1955.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widely distributed species in Britain, the larva feeding on oak (Quercus spp.), sallow (Salix spp.), hazel (Corylus avellana), blackthorn (Prunus spp.) and hawthorn (Crataegus spp.). In Dorset, the moth is abundant in deciduous woodland and frequent amongst scrub and hedgerow containing one or more of its host foodplants.

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