Diet Overlap

Biston betularia (peppered moth)
Trichiura crataegi (Pale Eggar)

Common Diet

Alnus incana (gray alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands
Dorset Heaths
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Morecambe Bay
South Solway Mosses
Sunart
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