Diet Overlap

Lycia hirtaria (Brindled Beauty Moth)
Amphipyra pyramidea (copper underwing)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Crataegus laevigata palmstruchii (Midland Hawthorn)
Fraxinus excelsior (European ash)
Ligustrum vulgare (lilac)
Populus nigra (Lombardy poplar)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Avon Gorge Woodlands
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
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