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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life Cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg attached to the foodplant. Larvae April to June. Pupates between spun leaves on the foodplant.

Larval foodplants

Black Currant, Gooseberry and Red Currant.

Habitat

Gardens and woodland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1860 for VC72 near Dumfries by Lennon who wrote that he had ‘bred ten on’, in 1870 for VC73 in Colvend parish by White and in 1897 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who found it ‘seemingly scarce’  ‘beaten from oak’.