Yorkshire Status: Fairly common resident.

Athrips mouffetella is named after Thomas Mouffett (1553 - 1604), a physician and one of Britain's first entomologists. Some people claim his daughter was the "Little Miss Muffet" of the nursery rhyme. Porritt was aware of several sites, and in 1883 wrote "larvae in honeysuckle". Records were thin on the ground before 2000, but in recent years it has been recorded more commonly, with a good spread of records across most of the county. It is a distinctive species - grey with prominent black dots - and should not be mistaken for any other. The black larvae can be found in a dense, white silken spinning on terminal leaves of honeysuckle of snowberry

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: There are records from vice-counties 61 to 64 but they are very sparse except from the Rotherham and Doncaster districts of VC63 where moths have been recorded regularly in small numbers.

Recorded in 47 (24%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1859. Last Recorded in 2024. Additional Stats

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