B&F: 2473

ABH: 72.069

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded from June into August with the occasional second brood in October in recent years.

Localities: Hazelborough Forest, Cottesbrooke Park, Weldon Park and Bedford Purlieus.

Observations: The moth appears sparingly at light in most well worked localities. The Fineshade Rothamsted light trap running in woodland provides useful data on the flight period and abundance of the species. Viz:- 
Year  Moths          Date
1993     0  
1994     2          3 July - 19 July
1995     1          9 July
1996     2         28 July -   5 August
1997     1          8 June
1998     0
1999     4          7 July - 25 July
2000     2          3 July -   4 July.
Records from Pitsford Water for the decade to 2009 show that the moth was recorded in five of the ten years with a total of thirty-three moths.     

The unusual dark form depicted in the lower photograph was taken in a garden light trap in Northampton by Martin Coles on 20.vi.2016.          

L.O.N.: 1905. Kettering, Blatherwyck. Not common.

First Record: 1858, Green.