Diet Overlap

Laothoe populi (Poplar Hawk-moth)
Eriogaster lanestris (Small Eggar)

Common Diet

Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Populus tremula (European aspen)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix aurita (eared willow)
Salix caprea (goat willow)
Salix cinerea (large gray willow)

Common Habitat

Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Lizard Point
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Pavements
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