Identification

The straw-coloured forewing, with a dark streak from the apical point to the cross-lines is diagnostic.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a larva, during September to July.

Larval foodplants

Larvae feed on Marsh Bedstraw and other bedstraws.

Habitat

This wetland species is to be found in fens, bogs, wet heath and damp woodland.

History

First recorded in Dumfries and Galloway in VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon, who noted that it was ‘abundant in meadows and damp places’, for VC73 in 1942 near Gatehouse of Fleet by Russell and for VC72 in 1943 at Tynron by Duncan.