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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording Method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Pupates in a cocoon in loose earth.Larvae May to July.

Larval foodplants

Dog-rose and probably other species of wild rose.

Habitat

Open woodland, hedgerows, gardens and other scrubby places..

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway for VC73 at Dalskairth, near Dumfries by Lennon who stated that it was ‘not common’, for VC73 in  1910 at Corsemalzie by Gordon and for VC72 not until 1971 at Newlands, north of Dumfries by Duncan.