Davey, P., 2009: A species occurring on heaths and moorland throughout Britain, the larva feeding on the flowers of heather (Erica spp.). In Dorset, the moth is abundant on sandy soil where heather (Calluna vulgaris) and heath (Erica spp.) abound. The moth is also encountered occasionally on unimproved dry grassland inland and on the coastal belt well away from heathland where ericaceous plants are quite absent, for example between 1991 and 2004, there were twenty separate occasions when the... Read More

Recorded in 33 (83%) of 40 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1940. Last Recorded in 2023. (Data up to end 2023) Additional Stats

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