Red-line Quaker (Leptologia lota) | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Taken at Aston, Oxon., on October 21st 2025. (© David Hastings) (Canon R6+RF100, f/10, 1/200th, ISO6400, 100mm) DescriptionFamily: Noctuidae (ABH : 73.189) Wing span: 30 - 36mm This species has a rather broad, slate-grey fore-wing. The outermost cross-line is reddish-brown, edged with yellow. The trailing half of the kidney mark is usually intensely black. It can be found throughout the British Isles. Habitats are woodland rides, scrub and hedgerows in open country, also river valleys, marshes and heathland. There is one generation from September to November. It over-winters as an egg. Larvae feed on the catkins and leaves of willows. It comes to light and sugar, and feeds on Ivy flowers and over-ripe berries. Earliest UK sighting: 1st October ; Latest UK sighting: 21st October Sightings
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