| Status:
Resident. Distribution
and Abundance: Local.
Primary Habitat:
Woodland.
Flight Period:
Single brooded in July and August.
Records: 15
August 1987 Yardley Chase (B. Statham), 27 July 2002
Bozeat (S. David), July 1992 Wellingborough (D. Larkin)
and January 2005 (larvae) Maxey (P. Waring).
Observations:
Established and recorded annually in the 1930s
and the 1940s in the Kettering area. In January
2005 a colony of overwintering larvae were observed in
communal webs on the Deeping by-pass near to Maxey. In
2006 the larval webs from this colony where found to have
spread and moths were taken at light in four new grid
squares indicating a further re-establishment of the
species in the county.
L.O.N.:
Undated. Billing, Cogenhoe.
First Record: 1859,
Sturgess.

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