Diet Overlap

Acronicta menyanthidis (Light Knot Grass)
Trichiura crataegi (Pale Eggar)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Calluna vulgaris (heather)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Salix caprea (goat willow)
Vaccinium myrtillus (myrtle blueberry)

Common Habitat

Border Mires, Kielder – Butterburn
Braunton Burrows
Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands
Coedydd Derw a Safleoedd Ystlumod Meirion/ Meirionnydd Oakwoods and Bat Sites
Eryri/ Snowdonia
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Inverpolly
Moor House – Upper Teesdale
Morecambe Bay
North Pennine Moors
Skipwith Common
South Solway Mosses
Sunart
The New Forest
Trossachs Woods

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