B&F: 0411

ABH: 20.012

Status:  Resident

Distribution/Abundance:  Common

Primary Habitat:  Woodland, Carr

Wingspan:  10-13mm

Flight Period:  June - August

Observations: Very common in the county. Adults have two forms, one being typical cris-cross of white and bronze, another being more suffused with the bronze colouration (form literella). Larvae overwinter in shoots or male catkins of Birch and Alder, feeding in spring causing the catkin to distort.

Confusion Species:  A. brockeella

L.O.N.:  Abundant locally on the stems of Birch. June & July.

First Record:  1905, Wallis