Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present June-July, August-September.  Adults present March-December.

Larval foodplants

Brassicas

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was recorded in the Dumfries & Galloway Standard & Advertiser on 25th July 1914 about an invasion in the Dumfries and Nithsdale area, Dumfriesshire, while the the first for Wigtownshire was caught at Killantringan Lighthouse on 12th August 1914 by D. A. Mowat the keeper, with the Kirkcudbrightshire first being trapped at the Rothamsted station at Gatehouse-of-Fleet on 18th July 1975.