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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with July Highflyer and May Highflyer.

Recording method

Readily disturbed by day. Flys from dusk, attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae July to September, hiding between leaves folded together by day and feeding at night.

Larval foodplants

Broadleaved willows.

Habitat

Moorland, heathland, bogs, marshes and wet woodland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in VC72 in 1947 at Comlongan near Ruthwell by Smith, for VC73  at Silver Flowe by Hulme and for VC74 in 1972 at Mochrum Malsie, west of Wigtown by Watson.