Diet Overlap

Acronicta tridens (Dark Dagger)
Saturnia pavonia (Emperor moth)

Common Diet

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

Common Habitat

Braunton Burrows
Breckland
Cwm Doethie – Mynydd Mallaen
Dorset Heaths
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Duddon Mosses
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Morecambe Bay
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Skipwith Common
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