Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present May-July in spun shoots and leaves, making large, conspicuous bunches.  Often feeds gregariously.  Adults July-September.

Larval foodplants

Angelica, less often Hogweed.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Torrs, Wigtownshire, on 5th June 1983 by Sir Arthur Duncan, who found the first for Dumfriesshire at Castlehill in Kirkmahoe parish on 14th July 1983, both specimens now at National Museums Scotland, with the Kirkcudbrightshire first being found at Hannaston Wood SSSI on 21st June 1996 during a Scottish Entomologists’ gathering.