Yorkshire Status: Fairly widespread resident.

If your mothing activities never take you out of your garden, you would probably consider this to be a very unusual species. If however you regularly in pine plantations your views will differ as it can be a lot more common, for example 44 at Pexton Bank Wood on 17/7/2022. Porritt in 1883 agreed - "in pine woods throughout the county, often abundant". It is a fairly easily-identifiable species, though the dark nigrofulvata form sometimes confuses people. It tends to be single brooded in Yorkshire though it has two broods in the south of England. In recent years however September records have become commoner. It is well distributed across the county and numbers seem to be stable.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely distributed in pine plantations. The melanic form, f. nigrofulvata (Collins), is often found.

Recorded in 141 (71%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1883. Last Recorded in 2023. Additional Stats

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