B&F: 1682

ABH: 70.029

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Waste ground. 

Flight Period: Double brooded from June to September.

Observations: The Fineshade Rothamsted light trap produced the following data on the species in the 1990’s:-
10 June - 18 July 1993,     17
19 June - 14 Aug 1994,     15
28 June               1995,      1
19 June -  9 Sep. 1996,       7
22 May - 15 Aug 1997,     15
18 June - 22 July 1998,     10
13 June - 14 Aug 1999,     10.  
Further evidence of the moths fluctuating abundance is provided by the Pitsford Water static light trap results for the decade to 2008 where the annual numbers recorded varied from sixty-seven to ten. The lower image is of the rare melanic f. nigra recorded at Pitsford in 2014.    

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Common.

First Record: 1842, Clark.