Diet Overlap

Acronicta menyanthidis (Light Knot Grass)
Eriogaster lanestris (Small Eggar)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Salix aurita (eared willow)
Salix caprea (goat willow)
Salix pentandra (laurel willow)
Vaccinium myrtillus (myrtle blueberry)

Common Habitat

Braunton Burrows
Eryri/ Snowdonia
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Pavements
Roudsea Wood and Mosses
The New Forest

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