Tortricidae

49.096 Small Bluebell Beauty Hysterophora maculosana (Haworth, 1811)

Local

Similar species:

Forewing: 5 to 6.5mm

Habitats: Deciduous woodland.

Habits: The moth flies in sunshine and comes to light at night.

Foodplant: The larva feeds in the seed-capsules of Bluebells. It consumes the ripening seeds, then bores its way out and into another, blocking the hole with silk. From late August the full-fed larva overwinters in an adjacent hollow dead stem, such as an umbellifer or bramble stem, where it pupates the following April.