Diet Overlap

Lycia hirtaria (Brindled Beauty Moth)
Acronicta tridens (Dark Dagger)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Prunus domestica (plum)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Pyrus communis (common pear)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Braunton Burrows
Dorset Heaths
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
Solent Maritime
The Broads
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
♦ 3Ecology of Commanster