Recording method

Comes to light

Life cycle

Larvae: July-August, September-May.  In summer, in the upper stem under a flower-head, eating young seeds.  In spring in the stems of shoots, turning the tips brown.  Adults: May-July, August-September.

Larval foodplants

Common Knapweed.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was published in Stephens (1834) with the Rev. William Little recording it at Raehills, Dumfriesshire, the seat of the Earls of Annandale, while the first for Wigtownshire was found near Monreith during July 1899 by K. J. Morton, specimen at National Museums Scotland, with the Kirkcudbrightshire first being found at Mersehead RSPB on 20th July 1996 during a ‘Grey Daggers’ Moth Group field meeting.