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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Marbled Minor agg.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar and flowers.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg. Larvae April to June. Pupates amongst leaf litter

Larval foodplants

Grey willow, other willows and Aspen.

Habitat

Damp woodland, marshland, fens, heathland and some gardens.

History 

First record for the Region was in 1951 when seven were trapped between 16th August and 4th September at Tynron (Duncan & Cunningham 1952).

During 1975-93 six of the seven Rothamsted stations, Caerlaverock being the exception, recorded about sixty records.

From 1994 to 2010 there were six sites where it was recorded in Kirkcudbrightshire: Rockcliffe, Glen Trool, Cally Woods, Wood of Cree, Old Torr and Auchencairn, with just a single record from each of the first four, one record from Wigtownshire at Torrs Warren, and the rest of the total of seventy records, all coming from Dumfriesshire, mainly Durisdeer in the north.