Identification

Unusual resting posture should aid identification.

Recording method

Flies from dusk, comes to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg. Larvae appear mid-April to mid-June. Pupation taking place among plant debris.

Larval foodplants

Larvae feed on Cleavers and other bedstraws.

Habitat

Adults are found in a wide range of habitats including gardens, farmland, grassland and open woodland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway for VC72 at Raehills, St’Ann’s by Little, in 1870 for VC73 in Colvend parish by White and in 1912 for VC74 at Polbae by Gordon who noted that it ‘occurs not uncommonly in the north of the county’.