Diet Overlap

Biston betularia (peppered moth)
Saturnia pavonia (Emperor moth)

Common Diet

Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Alnus incana (gray alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Filipendula ulmaria (Meadowsweet)
Frangula alnus alnus (Glossy Buckthorn)
Lythrum salicaria (salicaire)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)
Salix cinerea (large gray willow)
Sanguisorba officinalis (Great Burnet)

Common Habitat

Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands
Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd
Corsydd Môn/ Anglesey Fens
Dorset Heaths
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Lizard Point
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Pavements
North Norfolk Coast
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Sefton Coast
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