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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg. Larvae April to early June. Pupates in a cocoon on the soil surface or under bark.

Larval foodplants

Willows, Sallows and Poplars.

Habitat

Wet woodland, marshes, fens and riverbanks.

History

The first record for D&G was one in the late 1970s at Springfield, Gretna (BRC data). During 1994-2010, seven were trapped at Kirkton, Dumfriesshire.