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

Identification

Usually distinctive..

Recording method

Flies from dusk. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two overlapping generations. Overwinters as a fully-grown cocooned larva. Larvae June to July, and again September to April.

Larval foodplants

Bedstraws.

Habitat

Woodland, sand-dunes, grassland, heathland and gardens.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC72 near Dumfries by Lennon, in 1898 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who found it ‘common and generally distributed in gardens and on moors among bracken, etc.’ and in 1942 near Gatehouse of Fleet by Russell.