B&F: 2434

ABH: 73.012

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: General occurrence.

Flight Period: Double brooded in June and July with a partial second brood in August and September; sometimes appearing well into October, possibly as a small third brood.

Observations: The Fineshade Rothamsted moth trap running in woodland for eight years from 1993 returned a total of eight moths with an overall flight period from 9 June to 25 September. In excess of a hundred moths were recorded in each of the three years to 2009 at light in a garden trap operated in Woodnewton. In the past I have readily found the feeding larvae spun between the leaves of common nettle and later on the cocoons containing the pupae on the underside of the leaves. When they occur the autumn moths are significantly smaller in size.    

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Rather common.

First Record: 1842, Clark.