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In the New Forest, Hampshire, I often come across the empty cocoons of our only attractive British Silk Moth on the heaths, as there main foodplant being heather, from which they feed. So I decide to buy some, from a butterfly farm, a few weeks later I was surprised to see larvae feeding on bramble along side of a road, near where I live. The males are day flying searching for females, and they do not feed. The female flies at night looking for food plant to lay her eggs. As well as heather and bramble, the moths feed on hazel, hawthorn and sallow.
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