light fleabane neb

It is found from western and southern Europe to the Ural Mountains, North Africa, Asia Minor and India.

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Imago The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The ground colour is buff, streaked with whitish and with darker speckling. The forewings are light ochreous-yellow, with some black scales mostly arranged in longitudinal rows; margins, a median longitudinal streak from base to middle, an indistinct inwardly oblique slender fascia before middle and another at 3/4, and sometimes two or three faint longitudinal lines in disc posteriorly white. Hindwings are pale grey. The larva is pale yellowish; head and two spots on 2 dark fuscous, head pale brown. Adults are on wing in June and again from August to September.

Ovum Eggs are laid on common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica), black knapweed (Centaurea nigra), mints (Mentha species) and golden samphire (Inula crithmoides).

Larva Larvae feed on the achenes in the flower heads of the food plant, with a raised section of florets showing the presence a larva. In Britain and Ireland the larvae are found from June to August, again in September and October and overwinter fully fed until May when they form a pupa.

Pupa In Great Britain and Ireland, larvae can be found in May and June and again in August and September. …