Diet Overlap

Conistra rubiginea (Dotted Chestnut)
Calliteara pudibunda (Pale Tussock)

Common Diet

Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Braunton Burrows
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Mendip Woodlands
Sefton Coast
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham

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