Number of records: 4,084
Recorded in: 282 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 10 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.
Resident. Occurs sparingly or fairly commonly in a wide range of habitats in East Sussex, often fairly common to common in West Sussex. Well distributed but local in high numbers. Single-brooded, flying mainly from the second week of September to early November. Larvae feed on heather, petty whin, dock, dandelion and foxglove. (Pratt, 2011)
