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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Smoky and Common Wainscots.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar and flowers.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a small larva. Larvae August to early June. Pupates in leaf litter.

Larval foodplants

Common Reed and Reed Canary-grass.

Habitat

Marshes, fens and water ditches.

History

During the latter half of July 1996 two were caught at Caerlaverock WWT. One was trapped at Auchencairn (VC73) in early September 2003.

It was possibly overlooked on the Solway coast.