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  Oak Beauty Biston strataria  
         
 

B&F: 1930

ABH: 70.251

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded between February and April.

Observations: Extreme variation of the species is rare in the county. The only example that I have seen is a dark suffused form of the male that was taken on 13 March 1993 at Kirtley Coppice. In the exceptionally early season of 2005 a moth was taken on 31 January in the Pitsford Water light traps.

L.O.N.: 1906. Kettering, Brigstock, Northampton. Not uncommon.

First Record: 1842, Clark.