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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Common Carpet.

Recording Method

Flies by day. Attracted to light in small numbers.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Pupates in a cocoon on the ground. Larvae June and August.

Larval foodplants

Heath Bedstraw.

Habitat

Upland moorland and grasslands, upland woodlands, some lowland heaths and woodlands.

History

First recorded in Dumfries and Galloway for VC72 at Raehills, south of Beattock by Little,  for VC74 near Gatehouse by Russell and for VC73 near Gatehouse by Russell.