Tortricidae

49.057 Buff Grey Tortrix Cnephasia longana (Haworth, 1811)

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 7 to 10mm

Habitats: Calcareous downland, coastal downland, wasteground and vegetated shingle.

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

Foodplant: The newly hatched larva immediately hibernates. In the spring it spins immature flower-heads and feeds on the ripening seeds or spins terminal leaves and eats out the growing tip. The larva is polyphagous on herbaceous plants including Ox-eye Daisy, Cat's-ear, Sea Aster, Chamomile, Thrift, buttercups and campions. It pupates in a flimsy cocoon in the leaf litter or in a seed pod.