Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae: May-June in needles spun into a tube.  Adults: July-September.

Larval foodplants

Sitka Spruce, European Larch and pine species; occasionally on European Silver-fir Abies alba.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Castlehill in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire, on 14th July 1978 by Sir Arthur Duncan, specimen at National Museums Scotland, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found at an unknown site by a person unknown prior to 2010 (Scottish micro-moth data).