Diet Overlap

Biston betularia (peppered moth)
Phigalia pilosaria (Pale Brindled Beauty)

Common Diet

Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Crataegus laevigata palmstruchii (Midland Hawthorn)
Frangula alnus alnus (Glossy Buckthorn)
Nothofagus obliqua (roble beech)
Prunus domestica (plum)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Corsydd Môn/ Anglesey Fens
Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenland
Morecambe Bay
Roudsea Wood and Mosses
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