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The larval host plants are grasses.
Adults feed on nectar.
Male: 33 mm. Female:37 mm
Well-drained meadow and steppe habitats.
Usually two, occasionally three, broods and is on the wing from mid May until early October.
The small heath is a lateral basker, only ever resting with its wings
closed and angled at 90° to the sun.
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