Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar and flowers.

Life cycle

Unlikely to overwinter in the region.

Larval foodplants

Various grasses includingCock’s-foot and Annual Meadow-grass.

Habitat

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

History

Major UK influxes occurred in 1992 and 2006.  The first three D&G records were all caught at Kirkton (VC72), the first in mid-August 1992 (first record for Scotland), while the other two were in late September and early October, 2006.

Further 2006 records were at Forest Moor, Wigtownshire, while others occurred in Kirkcudbrightshire at Auchencairn, Slack Heugh Bay and New Abbey, all in the autumn.