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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a small larva.  Larvae mid-August to late May.

Larval foodplants

A wide variety of broadleaved trees and shrubs.

Habitat

Mainly broadleaved woodland, also scrub, hedgerows, parks and gardens..

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC72 near Dumfries by Lennon who recorded ‘it was rather common’, in 1899 for VC74 at Monreith Park by Morton, and in 1942 near Gatehouse of Fleet by Russell.