A specialist of hydric hardwood forests in Florida and coastally where the likely sole foodplant Crataegus aestivalis occurs, see Kons & Borth (2015) for details. Larva generally evenly toned gray to brownish, but overlapping the patterns of other small Rosaceae-feeding species (notably the common alabamae)... but perhaps separable in the field on foodplant preference, since the only other Catocala larvae Kons & Borth found during continued sampling of Crataegus aestivalis were mira, whose head capsule is typically distinguishable by the heavy red to black suffusion covering much of the face.