B&F: 2235
ABH: 73.200
Status: Resident.
Distribution
and Abundance: Local.
Primary
Habitat: Woodland.
Flight
Period: Single brooded in October and November
and after hibernation until May.
Localities: Hazelborough
Forest, Pitsford Water, Brampton Wood and Helpston.
Observations: I have
found the moth more plentifully at ivy bloom than at light. For a
number of years in the 1980s it was reliable in its attendance
at the ivy growing on an old wall on the edge of Glendon Wood.
Confusion Species: Pale Pinion
L.O.N.: 1905.
Near Kettering, Ashton, Weedon. At ivy blossom.
First Record: 1902, Whittingham.
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