Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Scarce Bordered Straw.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar.

Life Cycle

Larvae occur in some years in the UK but unlikely to survive the winter.

Larval foodplants

Larvae feed on flowers of Restharrow, Scentless Mayweed, Sticky Groundsel and garden marigolds.

Habitat

As a migrant, could appear anywhere but perhaps more likely at coastal sites.

History 1860-2010

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was trapped at Kirkton (VC72) on 18th June 2006, while the second was trapped at Old Torr on Auchencairn Bay (VC73) on 24th June 2009.