B&F: 1771a

ABH: 70.082

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Rare

Primary Habitat: Gardens

Flight Period: Double brooded with moths flying May to June, with a second generation in August and September

Localities: Peterborough (02.v1.2017, photograph opposite) .

Observations: One record in 2017 of an adult to light in a garden moth trap in Peterborough. Since its first discovery in the U.K. in 1984, the moth has gradually spread north and west, so is perhaps unsurprising, but nonetheless pleasing, that it has now appeared in VC32. Larvae feed on Monterey and Leyland Cypress.

L.O.N.: N/A

First Record: 2017, Chambers.