Diet Overlap

Biston betularia (peppered moth)
Acronicta tridens (Dark Dagger)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Prunus domestica (plum)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)
Salix cinerea (large gray willow)

Common Habitat

Dorset Heaths
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Epping Forest
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Isles of Scilly Complex
Morecambe Bay
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
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