B&F: 2113

ABH: 73.349

Status: Unknown.

Distribution and Abundance: Rare. Fluctuating in abundance to the 1980’s but absent from 1990. No modern records

Primary Habitat: Gardens.

Flight Period: Single brooded from June to September.

Records: The last four records that I hold are as follows:-
15 June 1989 Kingswood (D. Howton), 6 September 1988 Helpston
(M. Hillier), 5 September 1988 Kettering (J. Ward) and 30 July 1988 Salcey Forest (P. Sharpe).   

Observations: Although recorded sparingly at Castor Hanglands following the 1905 entry below this species did not feature on the Kettering Natural History Society lists until the advent of m.v. light trapping in the 1950’s. During this period captures of the moth at a Wellingborough garden light trap with first and last recording dates of 21 July and 2 September respectively were as follows:- 1951-2, 1952-3, 1953-2, 1954-32, 1955-4 and 1956-3. The species then seems to have decreased in abundance during the 1960’s and 1970’s until increasing again in the late 1980’s prior to the last record in 1989.

L.O.N.: 1905. Castle Ashby, Northampton, Blatherwycke. In outhouses and at sugar.

First Record: 1902, Victoria County History.