Recording method

Can be disturbed from the foodplant by day.  Flies at dusk and later comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present July-October. On Birch the larva feeds in flatly-spun leaves with large pale green blotches, preferring saplings. On Bog Myrtle it feeds in a tightly-spun shoot tip.  Adults fly May-July.

Larval foodplants

Birch species, Bog Myrtle.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found near Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 4th June 1993.