Appendix 1 of my checklist highlighted species that had not yet been recorded in the region but which might be expected. Copper Underwing was listed as one of these but Richard Sutcliffe has supplied retained specimens caught in his Bearsden Garden in 2009 that have proved to be A. pyrmidea. In 2010 he recorded more adults and photographed a larva feeding on his roses. The author, just up the road in Milngavie (Dunbartonshire), caught up when he recorded a single adult on 5th September, 2010 and another at Mugdock Country Park just over the vice county boundary into Stirlingshire on 2nd October.
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