Species Details

ABH: 74.011

BF: 2418

Family: Nolidae

Subfamily: Chloephorinae

Taxon: Earias clorana

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1761)

Vernacular: Cream-bordered Green Pea

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in fens, damp woodland, heathland and mosses throughout much of south-eastern England; widespread in south Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, but very uncommon in north Hampshire, where presumably all records relate to wanderers from the south of the county - 2023 saw for records, the most ever, which may presage a range expansion. Wingspan 20-24 mm. The superficially similar Green Oak Tortrix Tortrix viridana has grey hindwing and lacks the white costal streak of Cream-bordered Green Pea; two very rare immigrants, Spiny Bollworm E. biplaga and Egyptian Bollworm E. insulana, may also occur. Larva feeds on terminal shoots of Osier, Creeping Willow, and other species of Salix, over-wintering as a pupa.

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: 20 — 24 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 16 May (1904) — 26 Aug (1955)

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

Foodplant: Salix repens (Creeping Willow), Salix sp. (a sallow), Salix viminalis (Osier).

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/earias-clorana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 39

Individuals: 11

Earliest Year: 1904

Latest Year: 2019

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