B&F: 2030

ABH: 72.013

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: General occurrence.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Observations: The moth was very common at the Pitsford Water light traps with an annual average of 196 recorded in the five years to 2003. The incidence of female moths at light was low in the 1950’s in Wellingborough, when only three were seen in a garden trap out of a total catch of some 200 moths. The colourful caterpillars are frequently seen feeding openly in hawthorn hedges in late May

Confusion Species: Brown-tail

L.O.N.: 1907. Everywhere. Abundant.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.