Distribution and Abundance:  Common.

Primary Habitat:  Wetland.

Flight Period:  Single brooded in September and October.

Observations: Regularly seen at ivy bloom, several were noted feeding on the partly open flowers on 3 October 1987 at Blatherwycke Lake. The moth was particularly plentiful in the five years from 1999 to 2003 at the Pitsford Water light traps with an annual average of eighty-three moths trapped.

L.O.N.:  1907. Near Kettering, Northampton, Blisworth, near Weedon. At ivy etc.

First Record:  1843, Whitwell.