Species Details

ABH: 36.001

BF: 878

Family: Batrachedridae

Taxon: Batrachedra praeangusta

Authority: (Haworth, 1828)

Vernacular: Poplar Needle-moth

Account: Common wherever the foodplant occurs in a wide range of habitats throughout the British Isles, north to Aberdeenshire Larva feeds on catkins and seeds of White Poplar, Aspen, White Willow and Goat Willow.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 14 — 15 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 21 Jun (2025) — 15 Sep (2016)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Populus sp. (a poplar), Salix sp. (a sallow).

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/batrachedra-praeangusta/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 26

Individuals: 6

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2025

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