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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Very common and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jul.

Forewing: M 22-26mm. F 26-34mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees. Birches, sallows, oaks, 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	VC5	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1955	2007	1983	1955
Year last recorded	2011	2007	2011	2011
Number of records	3494	1	228	7446
Number of individuals	8211	1	707	17838
Unique positions	369	1	22	784
Unique locations	269	1	20	580
Adult records	3177	1	225	6806
Immature records	3	0	1	8

For the region, we have a total of 7446 records from 580 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1955.

Photos

Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widespread species in Britain, the larva feeding on various deciduous trees and shrubs. The moth uses its 'wood-chipping' markings, colouration and shape to good effect to camouflage itself from potential prey. In Dorset, the moth is common apart from on Portland where it is rare. The national norm is for a single brood in June and July, but with adults on the wing over a protracted period between early May and late August, an overlapping bivoltine cycle is suspected in Dorset with the peak of the first generation at the end of May and the second generation peak in mid-July. The following individual was trapped at a very late date: Gaunts Common, at MV light on 17 October 1995 (P Davey).

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