Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Bordered Straw.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar.

Life cycle

Generally arrives here late summer and early autumn. Larvae not recorded in the UK.

Larval foodplants

Yellow-rattle and Scarlet Geranium abroad.

Habitat

As a migrant, could appear anywhere but perhaps more likely at coastal sites.

History

There was an invasion of this migrant moth in 1996 when over 300 were recorded in Britain, with records on five nights in Dumfries & Galloway.

The first arrived on 21st September at Kirkton, with two more moths the following night there. Another, sometime in September, was trapped on Forest Moor, Wigtownshire.

On 2nd October three were trapped at Kirkton, followed by a single on the 30th, also at Kirkton.

One was trapped at Abbey Burn Foot on 6th August 2003.