L-Album Wainscot
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Mythimna l-album
Restricted to the southern counties of England from Cornwall eastwards to Kent.
It is easily attracted to sugar, and also comes to light.
Larva yellowish brown; dorsal line fine, paler, with black edges; subdorsal line black, edged above with pale; below it some faint dark lines; spiracles black.
The overwintering Caterpillars feed on a range of grasses.
Forewing greyish ochreous, tinged with olive brown through cell towards apex and along outer margin below apex; outer half of median vein white, shortly hooked at end; veins 3 and 4 whitish: a black streak from base below cell; veins pale outlined with dark.
The species occurs mainly in July and again in September and October.