Moths & butterflies known to feed on small scabious (Scabiosa columbaria):

Species Status Match
Marsh fritillary
Euphydryas aurinia
Vulnerable this species
No common name
Galeruca tanaceti
LC this species
Marbled clover
Heliothis viriplaca
LC this species
Narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth
Hemaris tityus
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.