B&F: 1665

ABH: 70.297

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Grassland.

Flight Period: Single brooded from June to August.

Localities: Sulby Gardens, Wakerley Wood, Collyweston Quarry and Castor Hanglands.

Observations: This species serves as a good illustration of a moth increasing its range due to the artificial planting of its foodplant. In the mid and late 1990’s gorse, a primary foodplant of the caterpillar was planted along the edge of Kettering’s northern bypass and at Barford Meadows Wildlife Trust Reserve. In the year 2000 the moth was recorded on the reserve and also turned up in my garden light trap a distance of some half a mile away.

L.O.N.: Vict. Hist.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.