Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in May and June.

Observations: Although still plentiful, the moth has been overtaken for at least the past fifty years by the Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) as the commonest species of Hawk-moth in Northamptonshire.

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. The commonest of the Sphingidae in this county.

First Record: 1858, Green.