Commonly seen in wide open spaces that have a varied habitat of sorrel, dock, thistle, bramble and hop, so this is the ideal place for them to live and breed. It’ll reach 4cm in length and then form a cacoon of leaf litter in which to overwinter before the moth emerges in the spring, also called the Owlet Moth because their large eyes can be seen in the dark when their grey mottled bodies can’t. Can be a pest when large numbers invade strawberry beds, so hope they stay in the paddock. A sunny warm day with an increasingly cooling wind, promise of rain tomorrow.
