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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Poplar Lutestring.

Recording Method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae July to September. Pupates in a cocoon amongst leaves of the foodplant.

Larval foodplants

Aspen and poplars.

Habitat

A wide range of habitats.

History

The first for D&G was one was trapped on 10th July 1998 at Abbey Burn Foot (VC73) by Colin Plant (The Entomologist‘s Record and Journal of Variation. 111: 39-41).