Diet Overlap

Erannis defoliaria (Mottled Umber Moth)
Calliteara pudibunda (Pale Tussock)

Common Diet

Acer pseudoplatanus (sycamore)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Avon Gorge Woodlands
Braunton Burrows
Breckland
Cwm Doethie – Mynydd Mallaen
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenland
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Pavements
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham
West Midlands Mosses
Witherslack Mosses

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández