41.003 Blastobasis lacticolella Copyright Martin Evans
41.003 Blastobasis lacticolella Copyright Martin Evans
41.003 Blastobasis lacticolella Copyright Martin Evans
Distribution map Copyright Martin Evans
Life stages table Copyright Martin Evans 41.003 Blastobasis lacticolella Copyright Martin Evans

Blastobasidae

41.003 Large Pale Masoner Blastobasis lacticolella Rebel, 1940

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 6 to 10.5mm

Habitats: Woodland, hedgerows and gardens.

Habits: The moth comes to light.

Foodplant: The larva feeds from a silk tube on a variety of organic matter, including moss, apple skins, dead insects, spun rose-hips or Hawthorn berries, the seedpods of Wild Lupin, Tansy heads, Hogweed heads while living in the stem, live or dead sallow leaves, catkin buds etc. The larva is purple-brown but paler underneath, with a glossy dark brown head and prothoracic plate, red-brown thoracic legs and a pale yellow anal plate. It pupates in a dense, white, soil-covered cocoon in the leaf litter.