Number of records: 65
Recorded in: 36 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 05 xi 2024
Identification difficulty
: 1Species that can be relatively easily identified even by inexperienced recorders with the use of up-to-date field guides. Such records would be accepted without the need for additional evidence as long as they conform to the normal flight period and geographical range of the species.
Suspected immigrant and episodic resident. Both as an immigrant and resident moth only occurs in singletons at mv light in wide range of habitats. Presumed freshly established at low density in extreme south-western corner of county since 2002. Single-brooded, flying mainly from the second week of September to late October, occasionally from early September or to mid November; after intermittent hibernation, adults reappear between late March and late April. Larvae feed on dock, yellow flag and sedges. (Pratt, 2011)
Burton Mill Pond, 9 iii 2025 Photo: Colin Piper
East Wittering, 29 x 2024 Photo: Mike Bailey
Upper Beeding, 10 x 2023 Photo: Matt Busuttil
Herstmonceux Castle, 02 iii 2019 Photo: Mike Mullis
Etchingham, 21 iii 2019 Photo: Caroline Moore
Thorney Island, 14 iv 2013 Photo: Mike Snelling
Steyning, 23 x 2021 Photo: Olly Ellis
West Sussex, 10 vi 2017 Photo: Dave Green and Graeme Lyons
