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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a small larva.  Larvae August to late May.

Larval foodplants

Ash, Honeysuckle and Privet.

Habitat

Broadleaved woodland, gardens and scrubby areas.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in VC73 as recently as 1974 in the Rothamsted light trap at Gatehouse of Fleet and in 1976 for VC72 in the trap at Waterside Mains.  It was first found in VC74 in 1979 near  near Drannandow Farm by Bland.