B&F: 2240

ABH: 73.206

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Gardens.

Flight Period: Single brooded from September into November.

Observations: Since the first record of this species it has spread throughout the county following the planting of its foodplant cypresses, especially leylandii, in gardens. In my own garden light trap currently it is the most plentiful autumn moth. As a matter of interest, in late August 2006 I marked twenty moths of this species from a catch of around forty from the night before with a very small speck of Humbrol paint at the base of the forewing. I then released them out of sight of the trap at the end of the garden. Over the next two weeks the trap was run nightly and twenty marked moths were recaptured. This demonstrates that on this occasion there was a considerable element of re-recording of the species in my garden.

First Record: 1978, Ecton, Gent.