Recording method

Adults sit on flowers and come to light.

Life cycle

Larvae: May-June, August-September.  Adults: July-September, October-April.

Larval foodplants

Many umbellifers.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was of a larva found on Heracleum on the Threave Estate, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 14th July 1994 by A. M. Emmet, who also found the first for Wigtownshire that was of a larva found on Heracleum at Glenwhan Gardens at Dunragit on 17th July 1994, with the Dumfriesshire first being found at an unknown site by a person unknown prior to 1996 (MOGBI data).