B&F: 1979

ABH: 69.001

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in May and June.

Observations: Although still plentiful, the moth has been overtaken for at least the past fifty years by the Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) as the commonest species of Hawk-moth in Northamptonshire.  In the forward season of 2011 a moth was taken at the Pitsford Water static light traps on 9 April.

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. The commonest of the Sphingidae in this county.

First Record: 1858, Green.