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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Flies at dusk. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg. Larvae April to early June. Pupates in a cocoon among needles of the foodplant.

Larval foodplants

Common Juniper and cultivated Junipers.

Habitat

Moorland, upland sites and gardens with the foodplant.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC73 at Whinney Hill near Kirkconnell Flow by Lennon, in 1940 for VC72 at Tynron Juniper Wood by Duncan.