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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a small larva.  Larvae September to early June. Pupation takes place in a spinning among the leaves of Common Juniper.

Larval foodplants

Common Juniper.

Habitat

Larvae feed on Juniper, of which there is a sparce D&G population in the region on coastal cliffs, moorland and a few other locations.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway for VC73 in 1892 at Dalskairth near Dumfries by Lennon, for VC72 in 1930 at Closeburn by Duncan but for VC74 not until 1999 at Float Bay.