Diet Overlap

Acronicta tridens (Dark Dagger)
Stauropus fagi (Lobster Moth)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
Salix caprea (goat willow)
Sorbus aucuparia (Mountain Ash)

Common Habitat

Breckland
Butser Hill
Cwm Doethie – Mynydd Mallaen
Dorset Heaths
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Epping Forest
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Solent Maritime
The Broads
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