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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Grass Rivulet.

Recording method

Flies around dusk. Attracted to light in small numbers.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae  July to September, living inside the seed capsules.

Larval foodplants

Red Campion flowers and ripening seeds

Habitat

Mature hedgerows, grasslands, edges of open woodland and sand-dunes.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1874 for VC73 in the Castle Douglas area by Robinson-Douglas, in 1899 for VC74 near Monreith by Morton and in 1944 for VC72 at Tynron by Duncan.