Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Nationally Scarce A (Na).

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Engrailed.

Recording method

Can be found resting on tree trunks and fence posts by day. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa,. Larvae late May to early August. Pupates in plant debris or underground.

Larval foodplants

Birches, heathers, Blaeberry and Bog Myrtle.

Habitat

Damp heathland, moorland and bogs.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway for VC72 in 1946 at Lochar Moss by Cunningham, in 1961 for VC73 in Glen Trool Forest by Shaw and in 1976 for VC74 at the Penninghame House Rothamsted light trap.