Season (Adult / Immature):
National Status: Common
Local Status: Scarce and thinly distributed or restricted resident.
Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation
Flight time: One generation, Feb-Apr.
Foodplant: Broadleaved trees.
|Year first recorded||1904||1883||1883||1883||1883|
|Year last recorded||2014||2014||2014||2015||2014|
|Number of records||85||208||126||288||60|
|Number of individuals||88||393||193||460||71|
For the county, we have a total of 767 records from 248 sites. First recorded in 1883.
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: A local species in Yorkshire and although regularly taken at some sites, not generally common.
2012 (CHF):This species seems to be doing well especially in oak woodland where it can be locally common eg 70 at Kilburn on 16.3.2009. Widespread in suitable habitat across the county and sometimes coming to gardens. One of the more striking spring moths.