Davey, P., 2009: A transitory resident in the nineteenth century of coastal marsh on the Isle of Wight and also in Kent and in East Anglia subsequently, the larva feeding on water mint (Mentha aquatica) and gipsywort (Lycopus europaeus). The species is double-brooded abroad.

In Dorset, old records among water mint hint at a colony about one hundred years ago: Norden, in 1899 (R Phelps), in 1901 (Reverend E Bankes). More recently, a moth was trapped in north-east Dorset and a second... Read More

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