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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Tawny Pinion.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar and flowers.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an adult. Larvae May to July. Pupates in a cocoon underground.

Larval foodplants

Various trees and shrubs, including oaks, birches, willows, Bramble and privets.

Habitat

Broadleaved woodland, parkland and gardens.

History 

Lennon (1863) had stated that it was rare, but that it had occurred at Dalscone (VC72), where he had also found the Tawny Pinion. It was not until 24 September 1996 that it was trapped by Dennis Garret on the Southwick Coast SWT reserve.

During 1997-2000 it was trapped annually at Cally Woods, and from then to 2010 was recorded twenty-five times, with a few from Carsluith, Carsfad at Dalry, Old Torr, Kirkton and Forest Moor.