B&F: 2336

ABH: 73.168

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Wetland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Localities: Sywell, Pitsford Water, Sulby Gardens and King’s Wood.

Observations: The moth occasionally turns up in garden light traps, but is much more at home in marshy areas where its foodplants the reed canary-grass and the reed sweet-grass grow. With ten moths being seen it was common on 27 July 1996 at m.v. lights at Whitewater Reservoir and at Pitsford Water, a favourable habitat for the species, the static light trap records vary from an annual low of four to a high of eighty-two in the decade to 2009.

First Record: 1940, Pilcher.