Diet Overlap

Xestia baja (Dotted Clay)
Eriogaster lanestris (Small Eggar)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Salix caprea (goat willow)
Salix cinerea (large gray willow)
Vaccinium myrtillus (myrtle blueberry)

Common Habitat

Eryri/ Snowdonia
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Lizard Point
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Pavements
Roudsea Wood and Mosses
Solent Maritime
The New Forest

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants