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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg,. Larvae April to May. Pupates in a cocoon underground.

Larval foodplants

Aspen and poplars.

Habitat

Broadleaved woodland, gardens, marshes, lochsides and shelterbelts.

History

Tirst record for D&G was  on 9th August 1998 at Durisdeer Mill, with the second trapped four years later at Kirkton on 2nd August, both Dumfriesshire (VC74).