Life cycle

Larvae: September-May, feeding first in a bud and then in a folded or rolled leaf.  Adults: June-September.

Larval foodplants

Many trees & shrubs and sometimes herbaceous plants.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Tynron, Dumfriesshire, on 14th July 1951 by Sir Arthur Duncan, who found the first for Kirkcudbrightshire at Troston on 26th June 1976, both specimens at National Museums Scotland, with the Wigtownshire first being found at the Corsemalzie House Hotel, near Mochrum, on 27th June 1988 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton.