Peter Davey / Phil Sterling, 2020: A widespread and increasingly frequent species across Britain, the larva feeding on a broad range of herbs. In Dorset, this is an often-met-with species, tending to favour for example, forest edge, heathland and wayside habitats, where hedge woundwort Stachys sylvatica, heather Calluna vulgaris and goosefoot Chenopodium respectively, grow. It is increasingly found in gardens where the larvae feed on various plants in the mint family, especially common calamint... Read More

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