Last modified: May 16, 2021, 5:06 p.m.
A common species throughout Belgium.
Native
The larva lives polyphagously on shrubs and trees in a compact tube of spun leaves on the host plants.
It hibernates in that tube and pupates in the larval habitation or amongst ground litter.
The adults fly in late afternoon till dark and later occasionally come to light and sugar.
The adults have been observed from late April till the end of July. Most specimens have been seen in May.
The larva lives on: Betula, Rubus, Quercus, Larix kaempferi, Pinus contorta and less often on grasses or herbaceous plants like *Cytisus, Solidago, ...