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Migrant/Accidental. Distribution and
Abundance: Scarce.
Primary Habitat: General
occurrence.
Flight Period: All
records are in the late summer and autumn.
Records: 1998
Salcey Forest (P. Sharpe),
23 September 2003 Thrapston ((M. Hammond),
2 October 2000 Pitsford Reservoir (P. Horsnail) and
23 September 1999 Kettering (J. Ward).
Observations: Some
earlier records are of larvae being found on imported
fruits and flower cuttings, however during the 1990s
the moths migrations seem to have reached the
county more than previously. In the high migration year
of 2006 one hundred and fifty-eight examples of this
moth were recorded in the county more than doubling the
modern mapped distribution of the species. At this stage
it is not known to what extent this is a pattern for the
future and the overall effect on the scarcity of the
moth.
First Record: 1962,
Rothschild.
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