Diet Overlap

Gonepteryx rhamni (Brimstone Butterfly)
Aglais urticae (Small Tortoiseshell)

Common Diet

Buddleja davidii (orange eye butterflybush)
Cirsium palustre (Marsh Thistle)
Galeopsis tetrahit (brittle-stem hemp-nettle)
Silene flos-cuculi (ragged robin)
Trifolium pratense (Red Clover)

Common Habitat

Mendip Limestone Grasslands
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Pavements
Salisbury Plain
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Ecology of Commanster