Diet Overlap

Operophtera brumata (winter moth)
Saturnia pavonia (Emperor moth)

Common Diet

Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Calluna vulgaris (heather)
Carpinus betulus (European hornbeam)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Erica cinerea (Scotch heath)
Frangula alnus alnus (Glossy Buckthorn)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Populus tremula (European aspen)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Black Wood of Rannoch
Breckland
Dartmoor
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Glen Tanar
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Rum
Sefton Coast
The New Forest
Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay
Y Twyni o Abermenai i Aberffraw/ Abermenai to Aberffraw Dunes

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