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

Identification

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

Recording method

Can be disturbed from birch tree trunks by day. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae June to late August. Pupates underground.

Larval foodplants

Downy Birch and Silver Birch, sometimes Alder.

Habitat

Birch woodland and birch scrub.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway only in 1948 for VC73 at Mabie Forest by Duncan, in 2000 for VC74 at Mochrum Loch, and in 2004 for VC72 at Kirkton.