Recording method

Can we swept from foodplant.  Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present July-June, thought to overwinter at this stage.  In spring, larva feeds in upper part of stem, causing swelling, or in a side-shoot, causing it to droop. Adults present June-August.

Larval foodplants

Bracken.

History

The first for Scotland and Dumfries & Galloway was found near Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 23rd July 2000, while the first for Wigtownshire was found at Port of Counan on 21st July 2006 during a ‘Grey Daggers’ Moth Group field meeting.