Recording method

Comes to light.  Hibernates in dense cover, outhouses etc.

Life cycle

Larvae present June-July, feeding in a spun or rolled leaf

Larval foodplants

Willow species.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Glenluce, Wigtownshire, on 12th April 1925 by J. W. Bowhill, the specimen now at National Museums Scotland, while the first record for Dumfriesshire was found at Castlehill in Kirkmahoe parish on 20th February 1976, this specimen also at National Museums Scotland, with the Kirkcudbrightshire first being trapped near Dalry on 4th June 1993.