Tortricidae

49.280 Mottled Grey Tortrix Gypsonoma oppressana (Treitschke, 1835)

Notable B

Similar species:

Forewing: 6 to 7mm

Habitats: Woodland rides and margins, parkland and suburban trees.

Habits: The moth rests on poplar trunks in the day. It flies at sunset and later comes to light.

Foodplant: The young larva feeds under a slight web in the angle between veins on the back of a leaf of Black Poplar or White Poplar. It overwinters while small within silk on the bark. In the spring it feeds within a succession of buds. Its presence is indicated by a tube of silk and frass projecting from the bud, which in a later larval stage becomes a silk tube on the twig. It pupates in a cocoon in the soil, in leaf litter or sometimes a bark crevice.