49.025 Pandemis cerasana Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Copyright Martin Evans
49.025 Pandemis cerasana Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Copyright Martin Evans
49.025 Pandemis cerasana Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Copyright Martin Evans
Distribution map Copyright Martin Evans
Life stages table Copyright Martin Evans 49.025 Pandemis cerasana Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Copyright Martin Evans

Tortricidae

49.025 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana (Hübner, 1786)

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 9 to 11mm (the females on average larger)

Habitats: Woodland, parkland, scrub, hedgerows, orchards and gardens.

Habits: The moth is easily disturbed in the day. It flies from dusk and later comes to light.

Foodplant: The larva may overwinter as an egg or as a small larva. It feeds at first in a bud and later from a rolled or folded leaf on limes, Ash, oaks, elms, birches, willows, sallows, plums, apple, pear, whitebeams, Alder, Hazel, Bilberry, loosestrifes and many other trees, shrubs and probably herbaceous plants. It pupates in the larval habitation.