Diet Overlap

Apis mellifera (honey bee)
Xestia castanea (Grey Rustic)

Common Diet

Calluna vulgaris (heather)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)

Common Habitat

Dorset Heaths
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Morecambe Bay
Solent Maritime
South Pennine Moors
The New Forest

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ecology of Commanster
♦ 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
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants