Diet Overlap

Biston betularia (peppered moth)
Ectropis crepuscularia (small engrailed)

Common Diet

Alnus incana (gray alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Crataegus laevigata palmstruchii (Midland Hawthorn)
Fagus sylvatica (European beech)
Frangula alnus alnus (Glossy Buckthorn)
Larix decidua (European larch)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Brown Moss
Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd
Dorset Heaths
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Pavements
North Norfolk Coast
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
South Pennine Moors
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
♦ 3Ecology of Commanster