Diet Overlap

Colotois pennaria (Feathered Thorn)
Orthosia incerta (Clouded Drab)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Populus nigra (Lombardy poplar)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Burnham Beeches
Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
South Solway Mosses
The New Forest
Tulach Hill and Glen Fender Meadows

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández