Yorkshire Status: Fairly common and fairly widespread resident.

Porritt mentions several localities for this moth in his lists, though Rutherford in 1970 casts doubt on these due to confusion with Autumn Green Carpet and believed that the only reliable records before 1940 were from Scarborough. He regarded it as "very scarce" in Yorkshire. By 1989 when Sutton and Beaumont was written, it had started to appear more frequently, and by 2000 we were getting 100 records per year. We now receive over 700 records per year, and it is widespread all across the county. Adults emerge in September and tend to fly until November. The males do not survive the winter, however females hibernate and can be seen in the spring and well into the summer. In fact this is one of the few species of moths where we have records in every month of the year. It is possible to mistake it for Autumn Green Carpet which is mostly a moth of upland areas, is generally more attractive, and does not have the reddish-brown scales.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: There have been several recent Yorkshire records of this scarce moth after a gap of almost 40 years. It is also quite common in Hamsterley Forest in Durham, not far from the north of our County (Dunn & Parrack, 1986).

Recorded in 146 (73%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1883. Last Recorded in 2024. Additional Stats

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