Earias clorana (Linnaeus, 1761)

Host plants:
The larvae feed on Salix species.

Habitat:
Earias clorana inhabits softwood-rich sites such as floodplains, waters shores or moist forest clearings. I found Earias clorana near Memmingen on narrow-leaved willows in a wet spruce reforestation. In the Lech Valley near Forchach (Austria), I found very many larvae on gravel at small shrubs of Salix elaeagnos (lavender willow) in early September 2010. Interspersed bushes of Salix purpurea were not settled.

Life cycle:
The pupa hibernates. Moths fly from late April to late June and again in an often only partial second generation in July and August. The caterpillars live in a housing made of spun leaves in the tip of the shoot.

Remarks:
Earias clorana is widespread in most of Europe.