Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Sep-Oct.

Forewing: 13-16mm.

Foodplant: Sallows and poplars - herbaceous 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	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1956	1973	1956
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	764	66	1660
Number of individuals	2042	197	4478
Unique positions	122	11	266
Unique locations	100	10	220
Adult records	718	66	1568
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 1660 records from 220 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1956.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widespread species in Britain, the larva feeding at first on sallow (Salix spp.) and poplar (Populus spp.) catkins, and later on herbaceous plants. In Dorset, the moth is locally common in damp places such as mire, marsh, river valleys, damp grassland, and damp woods where sallows and/or poplars grow.

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