In Britain the moth flies from late-April to September, possibly in two extended generations or in a succession of broods.

In Great Britain, Alexander Allen obtained eggs from a captured female and saw the larvae initially feeding gregariously in a silken web and as they grew they fed alone.

The first wild larvae found in Great Britain was in the garden of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH) in March 1998.

They were in loose silken tubes covered with leaf-fragments and frass, between dry, layered leaves of London plane (Platanus × hispanica).

[3] The moth is native to Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria), and has been introduced to New Zealand and Great Britain, most certainly on imported plants.