Moths & butterflies known to feed on flixweed (Descurainia sophia):

Species Status Match
Grey carpet
Lithostege griseata
Near Threatened this species
The nutmeg
Anarta trifolii
LC this species
Silver y
Autographa gamma
Not assessed this species
Common carpet
Epirrhoe alternata
LC this species
Shaded pug
Eupithecia subumbrata
LC this species
Marbled clover
Heliothis viriplaca
LC this species
Small white
Pieris rapae
LC this species
White colon
Sideridis turbida
LC this species
The cinnabar
Tyria jacobaeae
LC this species
Garden carpet
Xanthorhoe fluctuata
LC this species
Setaceous hebrew
Xestia c-nigrum
LC this species

Host-plant data: Cook et al. (2025), Traits data for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland, 2024, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology / Butterfly Conservation; and Padovani et al. (2020), Database of Insects and their Food Plants (DBIF), UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (both Open Government Licence). Contains data supplied by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.