ABH 49.379	Orange Spot Piercer Pammene aurana		BF 1250
Back To	(Fabricius, 1775)
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Family	Tortricidae » Olethreutinae
Wingspan	9-13 mm.
Description	A very distinctive species, having two orange blotches on a chocolate brown forewing.
Life Cycle	Flying in June and July, the moths can be found in the afternoons on the flowers of the foodplant, hogweed (Heraclium sphondylium). The larvae spin seeds of hogweed together .living between seeds spun together with silk were they feed , and over-wintering in a cocoon.
Habitat	Hedgerows, rough ground and woodland edges, favouring Hogweed.
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