Easily distinguished by the chocolate-brown blotch on the forewing, contrasting with a greyish brown ground colour.

Woodland and hedgerows where Bramble occurs.

Adults are on the wing in June and July.

The food plants are Bramble, and other Rubus species. The caterpillars are pinkish brown with a dark head.  They feed on young shoots in the spring and spin the terminal leaves of a shoot together with silk. Safe within, they feed before pupating

A common and widely distributed species in Britain. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.

Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland. L&R Moth Group status = A (common and resident)