Dalton Crags is a large limestone woodland occupying a south-west facing slope on the edge of the Hutton Roof massif. The VC60 parts of the complex are mainly owned and manged by Forestry England, with a slither of VC60 to the North managed by Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
The woodland is a mixture of limestone pavement, ancient woodland and newly planted beech & larch. Open grassland areas are dominated by Blue-moor Grass, the likely main foodplant of the Nationally Rare and Endangered macro-moth Least Minor Photedes captiuncula, which has a colony on the site..
Recorders: Belinda Nixie, Rob Zloch, Steve Palmer, Paul Brennan, Keith Fowler, Ben Hargreaves, Chris Workman, Steve Garland, Rob Zloch, Louise Hislop, Clare Boyes, Andrew Halstead, Martin Greenland, Joel Kilgour, Jess Sharp, Leanna Dixon, Gary Hedges
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