B&F: 2098

ABH: 73.328

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: General occurrence. 

Flight Period: Single brooded in June and July.

Observations: The species varies considerably in abundance as shown by this comparison between light trap records from a Woodnewton garden and those from the Pitsford Water static light traps for the three years to 2009: -
Woodnewton,   2009 - 300, 2008 - 132 and 2007 - 100.
Pitsford Water, 2009 - 106, 2008 -   40 and 2007 -   49.
In literature the incidence of second brood moths flying in September is described as occasional and partial. In Northamptonshire this seems to be very much the exception.

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Common.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.