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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Lunar Thorn.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae June to July and again August to September.

Larval foodplants

Alder, birches, hawthorns, Hazel, oaks and many other broadleaved trees..

Habitat

Woodland, scrub and gardens.

History

First recorded in Dumfries and Galloway in 1972 for VC73 in Glen Trool Forest by Plant, and in 1977 for VC72 in the Rothamsted light trap at Waterside Mains, Keir.