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

Identification

Usually distinctive..

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg on the foodplant. Larva  May to June. Pupates in a flimsy cocoon on the ground among plant debris.

Larval foodplants

Dog Rose, Burnet Rose and other roses.

Habitat

Found in open woodland, scrub, farmland and gardens.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in VC72 in 1880 at Raehills, St. Ann’s by Little, for VC74 in 1899 near Monreith by Morton and for VC73 in 1942 near Gatehouse of Fleet by Russell.