Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Common Local Status: Fairly common and widespread resident. Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation Flight time: Two generations, Apr-Jun, Sep-Nov. Forewing: 13-17mm Foodplant: Norway Spruce, Sitka Spruce, Western Hemlock. |
Record breakdown:
VC9 | VC5 | VC11 | Region | |
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Year first recorded | 1959 | 2007 | 1975 | 1959 |
Year last recorded | 2011 | 2008 | 2011 | 2011 |
Number of records | 920 | 3 | 186 | 2218 |
Number of individuals | 1946 | 76 | 229 | 4502 |
Unique positions | 182 | 2 | 15 | 398 |
Unique locations | 137 | 1 | 15 | 306 |
Adult records | 831 | 3 | 185 | 2038 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For the region, we have a total of 2218 records from 306 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1959.
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Species Account
Similar species: 1768 Thera obeliscata (Grey Pine Carpet).
For further information refer UK Moths.
Davey, P., 2009: A species found over much of Britain, but local in Scotland, the larva feeding on norway spruce (Picea abies), sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and western hemlock-spruce (Tsuga heterophylla). In Dorset, the moth is common in spruce and fir plantation. The moth is bivoltine with two brood cycles paralleling those of the Grey Pine Carpet1768. The length of time between the peaks of a given cycle is roughly one hundred and twenty-nine days. The following singletons observed at light traps between January and March may be partial third brood individuals: Puddletown, on 24 December 2000, 7 January 2003 (H Wood Homer), Bere Wood, two on 15 March 1997 (R Cook et al).
Hill, L., 2013:
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