Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Common.

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Common Carpet.

Recording Method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae June and July.

Larval foodplants

Heath Bedstraw, Hedge Bedstraw and Lady’s Bedstraw.

Habitat

Mainly coastal locations, coastal cliffs, sand dunes, shingle. Also on some inland grassland sites.

History

First recorded in Dumfries and Galloway in VC72 at Glen Mills, Dumfries by Lennon who stated that it was ‘not common’, in VC74 in 1895 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who found it ‘scarce, taken singularly’  and for VC72 at Tynron by Duncan.