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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Flies around dusk, sometimes in numbers. Occasionally attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae  late June to early October. Pupates among leaves.

Larval foodplants

Birches, Hazel, Hawthorn and Blackthorn.

Habitat

Mainly open woodland but also mature hedgerows, scrubby heathland, moorland and grassland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC73 in Mabie Forest by Lennon, but not until 1989 for VC74 at Kirkinner by Hancock and 2010 for VC72 at Gallow Hill, Moffat by Dave Dick.