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

Identification

Usually distinctive..

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Usually two generations. Overwinters as a part-grown larvae or as pupa. Larvae present through much of the year. Pupates in a cocoon on or beneath the foodplant.

Larval foodplants

Blackthorn and Hawthorn.

Habitat

Scrub, hedgerows and gardens.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1899 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who found it ‘very common and generally distributed in Wigtownshire, flying along hedge sides and near woods’, in 1930 for VC73 at Laurieston Hall by Stamp and in 1932 for VC72 at Closeburn by Duncan.