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A very attractive moth with superb camouflage when at rest it resembles dried oak leaves, the caterpillars, which hibernate through the winter, feed on a variety of shrubs such as hawthorn and blackthorn. The full-grown caterpillars become quite large with fleshy lappets on the sides of its body, which gives its name. I have only ever seen the moths, which are on the wing from June and July, caught in my moth trap.
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