Species Account

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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, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 22-30mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved woody plants. Hawthorn, Blackthorn etc.

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	1970	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2008	2011	2011
Number of records	1732	1	78	3622
Number of individuals	2822	1	84	5814
Unique positions	238	1	17	512
Unique locations	195	1	16	424
Adult records	1482	1	76	3118
Immature records	0	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 3622 records from 424 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 found throughout southern Britain, the larva feeding on hawthorn (Crateagus spp.), blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), ivy (Hedera helix), privet (Ligustrum spp.) and a variety of other deciduous and evergreen tree and shrub species. In Dorset, the moth is evenly distributed. 'The insect is not abundant and does not like fir woods, but it is a usual sight of an evening flying rapidly along country lanes, in rides in woods and about town in gardens and parks' (W Parkinson Curtis ms). Examples have been trapped occasionally during autumns following warm summers; these suggest a bivoltine tendency in recent years: 1989, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006.

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