Information
| Red List status: | Least Concern |
| NERC Act S41: | Not listed |
| Local status: | Common.
Distributed over whole county.
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| Size: | Large. |
| Larval foodplant: | Buckthorn and Alder Buckthorn. |
| No. of broods: | One. |
| Flight time(s): | New brood emerges in late July and into August and soon hibernates, emerging the following spring to breed. It continues to live until about June, making it one of the longest lived butterflies as an adult at about 10 to 11 months. Numbers dip in July between broods.
Average first date: 8th Feb
Average last date: 20th Nov |
| Winter: | Hibernates as an adult, often in Ivy and other evergreens, including bramble patches.
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| Habits: | Never rests with wings open. |
| Habitats: | May occur anywhere but its larval foodplants occur mostly in scrubby woodland and hedgerows. |
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