Number of records: 248
Recorded in: 45 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 20 viii 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.
A resident that usually occurs singly or sparingly but it is occasionally fairly common to common near coastal reed-beds. Very local, and currently chiefly confined to within a few miles of the seashore. In decline. Sometimes double brooded, flying mainly from the third week of June to early August and sometimes again from mid August to the third week of September. Adults have been seen in every week from early June to the third week of September. The Larval foodplant has not been discovered in the wild, although Dandelion and Knotgrass have been utilised in captivity. (Pratt, 2011)
