Diet Overlap

Celastrina argiolus (Holly Blue Butterfly)
Melanchra persicariae (Dot Moth)

Common Diet

Buddleja davidii (orange eye butterflybush)
Calluna vulgaris (heather)
Ribes nigrum (European black currant)
Ribes rubrum (cultivated currant)
Ribes uva-crispa (European gooseberry)
Rubus idaeus (Raspberry)

Common Habitat

Morecambe Bay Pavements
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
The New Forest

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández