Diet Overlap

Biston betularia (peppered moth)
Colotois pennaria (Feathered Thorn)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Crataegus laevigata palmstruchii (Midland Hawthorn)
Dasiphora fruticosa (shrubby cinquefoil)
Prunus domestica (plum)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Corsydd Môn/ Anglesey Fens
Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Morecambe Bay
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Sefton Coast
South Solway Mosses
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham

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