B&F: 2057

ABH: 72.026

Status:  Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Scarce.

Primary Habitat:  General occurrence. 

Flight Period:  Single brooded in July and August.

Records: 1985 Barnack Hills & Holes (C. Gardiner), 24 July 1996 Rockingham Park (J.Ward), 15 July 2008 Irchester Country Park (D. Larkin) and 23 June 2009 Pitsford Water (J. Wallace).

Observations: The species has greatly declined in more recent years. Details of the number of moths trapped by the two Pitsford Water 125 m.v. light traps running nightly for the decade to 2009 are as follows:- 2000 - 26, 2001 - 16, 2002 - 11, 2003 - 2, 2004 - 1, 2005 - 4, 2006 - 12, 2007 - 1, 2008 - 0 and 2009 - 4. My own field records show that I have seen the moth in five of the past ten years to 2009, usually as a singleton. By comparison, some sixty years ago in 1951 a single 80 watt m.v. light trap running in a Wellingborough garden throughout the season attracted 321 examples of the moth, a typical number for this site in the early 1950’s.

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

First Record: 1842, Clark.