B&F: 2114

ABH: 73.351

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Rather local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in June and July.

Localities: 2010 Cockley Brake Woods, 2010 Scotland Wood, 1998 Sulby gardens and 1993 Castor Hanglands.

Observations: In my experience the moth is generally more plentiful at actinic light than at m.v. light leading to some element of under recording. On 16 June 2002 eleven examples of the moth were taken in a small actinic light trap left overnight in the osier biomass at Boughton Park. The catch consisted almost entirely of this species. In the six subsequent years up to 2008 I have seen the moth in small numbers at m.v. light at different localities in two of the years. The species has only been recorded once in the Pitsford Water light traps in the decade to 2009. In the past I have found the caterpillar feeding on the opening leaves of hawthorn in the spring.

Confusion Species: Dingy Shears 

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Often abundant at sugar.  

First Record: 1843, Whitwell.