B&F: 2437

ABH: 73.014

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Gardens.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Observations: This species seems to be less common than formerly possibly due to less of its foodplants, monk’s-hood and delphinium, being grown in gardens. There are old records of second brood moths in September and October but I have only seen first and presumably single brood moths earlier in the year in the county. There are also several notes amongst the records from the first half of the last century of the moth having been taken feeding at honeysuckle in Kettering gardens. In the past I have readily found the caterpillars and yellow silken cocoons on delphinium plants in the town.

L.O.N.: 1906. From Castle Ashby to Ashton Wold. Occasional and irregular.

First Record: 1905, Slater.