Diet Overlap

Saturnia pavonia (Emperor moth)
Trichiura crataegi (Pale Eggar)

Common Diet

Alnus incana (gray alder)
Betula intermedia (dwarf birch)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Calluna vulgaris (heather)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Erica cinerea (Scotch heath)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Populus tremula (European aspen)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Salix caprea (goat willow)
Sorbus aucuparia (Mountain Ash)

Common Habitat

Border Mires, Kielder – Butterburn
Braunton Burrows
Cairngorms
Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands
Claish Moss and Kentra Moss
Dorset Heaths
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Glen Tanar
Inverpolly
Isle of Portland to Studland Cliffs
Moor House – Upper Teesdale
Morecambe Bay
North Pennine Moors
Skipwith Common
Solent Maritime
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham
Trossachs Woods
Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay
Y Twyni o Abermenai i Aberffraw/ Abermenai to Aberffraw Dunes

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