Life Cycle and Food Plants
The females lay eggs singly on species of the Rosaceae, usually Agrimony Agrimonia eupitoria, Creeping Cinquefoil Potentilla reptans and Wild Strawberry Fragaria vesca.
Other plants used occasionally are Barren Strawberry P. sterilis, Tormentil P. erecta, Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor, Bramble Rubus fruticosus, Dog-rose Rosa canina and Wood Avens Geum urbanum.
On hatching the caterpillars build shelters for use when they are not feeding. The larvae spin pupal cocoons and overwinter before emerging the following spring. The adult butterfly flies from the end of April until the middle of June.
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