Diet Overlap

Operophtera brumata (winter moth)
Abraxas grossulariata (Magpie Moth)

Common Diet

Calluna vulgaris (heather)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenland
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

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