Diet Overlap

Biston betularia (peppered moth)
Amphipyra pyramidea (copper underwing)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Buddleja davidii (orange eye butterflybush)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Crataegus laevigata palmstruchii (Midland Hawthorn)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

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