SNOUT Hypena proboscidalis
Common
Scottish Status: Common - stable. UK Status: Common
UK distribution shows a long-term small but significant increase (cf: Atlas of Britain & Ireland's Larger Moths)
Photograph of larva © Angus McBay
The photo below the map is of a small blackish individual trapped on the 3rd August.
First and last flight dates recorded in Caithness: 19th June to 8th September with occasional stragglers to 29th September


MAP: black dots last record pre 2000  blue dots last record 2000 to 2009  
red dots last record 2010 to 2019  green dots last record 2020 to present 






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