B&F: 1937

ABH: 70.258

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: General occurrence.

Flight Period: Mainly single brooded from June to August with an occasional and partial second brood in September.

Observations: Overall the typical form seems to be dominant in the county with the dark form perfumaria being less common. The lower photograph is one of two similar melanic forms that I took in my Kettering garden in 2009. These are the only melanic examples that I have seen in the county. During the 1990’s the Fineshade Rothamsted light trap recorded eighty-three consecutive moths without any melanics.

L.O.N.: 1907. Everywhere. Very common.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.