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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Abundant and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jun-Oct.

Forewing: 17-24mm

Foodplant: Various trees

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	2007	1970	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2008	2011	2011
Number of records	7999	2	497	16996
Number of individuals	20836	13	997	43692
Unique positions	483	2	41	1052
Unique locations	332	1	35	736
Adult records	7102	2	494	15196
Immature records	1	0	0	2

For the region, we have a total of 16996 records from 736 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A common species in Britain, apart from in the north of Scotland where it is local, the larva feeding on a wide variety of evergreen and deciduous tree and shrub species. In Dorset, the moth is ubiquitous and usually common, sometimes abundant, and least common on open heathland. The caterpillar will eat almost any plant species. The national norm is for a single brood between late June and August with an occasional second brood in September. In Dorset, the prolonged flight period between late May and late October probably comprises two brood cycles; a single brood in mid summer and a double brood with peaks in mid-June and mid-September.

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