Diet Overlap

Abraxas grossulariata (Magpie Moth)
Trichiura crataegi (Pale Eggar)

Common Diet

Calluna vulgaris (heather)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Braunton Burrows
Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands
Dorset Heaths
Fenland
Moor House – Upper Teesdale
Morecambe Bay
Solent Maritime
The New Forest
Trossachs Woods
Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay

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