Species Account

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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: Recorded all year, mainly May-Oct.

Forewing: 21-25mm.

Foodplant: Herbaceous and 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	1905	2007	1973	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2007	2011	2011
Number of records	5792	1	334	12254
Number of individuals	16419	1	1143	35126
Unique positions	371	1	30	804
Unique locations	259	1	24	568
Adult records	4955	1	332	10576
Immature records	8	0	0	16

For the region, we have a total of 12254 records from 568 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.
National distribution: Mothcount.

Davey, P., 2009: A widespread species in Britain, the polyphagous larva feeding on a wide variety of deciduous trees, shrubs and plants. In Dorset, this unmistakable moth has been observed in every month of the year, and is ubiquitous and common to abundant. The moth is evidently double-brooded in the county, but influxes of immigrants originating from abroad where the moth is polyvoltine, tend to mask the indigenous brood cycles. Annual light trap totals vary due to the magnitude of immigration in any given year, and highest nightly counts tend to be from coastal localities between mid-September and mid-October as immigrants swell resident populations.

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