Bright-line Brown-eye

Lacanobia oleracea

Very common all over Britain, mainly nocturnal.

The Larva is green or brown dotted with white with black and yellow spiracular lines down the side with darker edging. 

The Larvae feeds on Orache & Goosefoot.

The species overwinters as a pupa.

Forewing red brown clouded with darker; veins grey, whitish towards termen: reniform stigma orange in its upper part, dark fuscous below; orbicular round, white edged, sometimes very small; submarginal line finely white.

It is on wing from the latter half of June to July.

Occasionally, there will be a second generation from the end of August to the first half of September.