Species Details

ABH: 73.298

BF: 2193

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Hadeninae

Taxon: Mythimna ferrago

Authority: (Fabricius, 1787)

Vernacular: Clay

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats, including gardens, marshes, river-banks and open woodland throughout the British Isles. Similar to White-point M. albipuncta, and sharing that species' black blotch on abdomen of male, but larger and plainer. Larva feeds on various grasses, including Annual, Smooth and Wood Meadow-grass, and Cock's-foot.

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: 36 — 44 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 6 Jun (2018) — 5 Sep (1959)

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

Foodplant: Gramineae.

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/mythimna-ferrago/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1020

Individuals: 622

Earliest Year: 1840

Latest Year: 2025

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