Muslin Moth
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Diaphora mendica
Common & widespread in Britain, mainly nocturnal.
Larva grey-brown, greenish laterally, with reddish brown warts and foxy red hairs; on the back a median line, which is sometimes indistinct.
The Larvae feed on Birch, Willow, Rumex, Lamium and Plantago.
Male sooty brown-grey, usually with a black dot at the apex of the cell; sometimes without and in other cases with a few accessory dots.
The Female thinly scaled, milky white, with the abdomen of the same colour; wings very sparsely dotted.
The Female resembles Spilosoma lubricipeda, but that species has longer and smaller wings and a yellow and black back.
Adults fly in a single generation during May & June.