Red List: Near Threatened (NT). GB Status: Common.

See also Moth of the Week (10/05/2020)

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with the red form with Red Twin-spot Carpet.

Recording Method

Flies from dusk and attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a pupa. Pupates in a cocoon in plant debris. Larvae  July to September.

Larval foodplants

Bedstraws, docks and other herbaceous plants.

Habitat

A wide range of habitats including gardens, woodland, hedgerows, moorland and coastal locations.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway  in VC72 at Redhills, south of Beattock by Little,  for VC73 in 1870 at Colvend by Little and for VC74 in 1898 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who recorded that it was ‘common at light’.