Diet Overlap

Acronicta tridens (Dark Dagger)
Arctia caja (garden tiger moth)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Pyrus communis (common pear)
Sorbus aucuparia (Mountain Ash)

Common Habitat

Braunton Burrows
Cwm Doethie – Mynydd Mallaen
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Isles of Scilly Complex
Morecambe Bay
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
Solent Maritime
The Broads
The New Forest
Thorne Moor
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
♦ 3Ecology of Commanster