Morley's Final Catalogue: Locally abundant in east Suffolk, especially along the coast, where we have heard of drowned imagines being washed up in myriads at Southwold, about 1926. Often at light in Ipswich; abundant at Beccles; Gorleston. Unnoted in west Suffolk up to 1890, though actually frequent in the Breck marhses, where it feeds on any Salicineae; pupae at Rushbrook (Norgate); larvae common on osiers at Sudbury in spring of 1898 (Ransom).
Recent Suffolk status: Locally common.
Life history: Single-brooded in the summer.
Identification: Yellow-tail and Brown-tail are much smaller and don't have black and white banded legs.
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