Latticed Heath

The Latticed Heath moth has yellowish to white wings, with a ‘latticed’ pattern, created by brown lines and veins on the upper and underside of the wings. The lines can vary in thickness and sometimes the wings are almost entirely dark brown.

The adults fly by day in sunshine and also fly after dark and can be seen in open ground, including gardens, waste ground, calcareous grassland, fens, open woodland, heathland and moorland. There are usually two generations, especially in the south and can be seen in May and June and again in August and September.

The caterpillars can be found on clovers, trefoils and lucerne in June and July and again from mid-August to September before overwintering as pupae.

A widely distributed species in Britain.