Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae: October-May, first in the catkins causing slight distortion then later in developing leaf-buds.  Adults: June-October.

Larval foodplants

Hazel, Common Alder.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Livingstone, Kirkcudbrightshire on 21st July 1963 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, who also found the first for Dumfriesshire at Penpont on 3rd August 1975, with the Wigtownshire first being found at Leswalt on 17th July 2012.