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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording Method

Can be found at rest by day. Attracted to light and sugar.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg. Larvae May to July. Pupates in a cocoon in a bark crevice or amongst plant debris.

Larval foodplants

Poplars, Aspen and willows.

Habitat

Woodland, riverbanks and gardens.

History

The first was found on the farmhouse wall at Caerlaverock WWT on 21st September 1998. The next was trapped at Kirkton on 29th September 2005, with another found on the garage wall at Auchencairn on 22nd August 2006.