Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Nationally Scarce B (Nb).

See also Moth of the Week (04/07/2019)

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Green Pug.

Recording method

Can be disturbed by day from the foodplant Bilberry. Flies at dusk. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg on the foodplant. Larvae April and May in spun leaves. Pupates underground or among the foodplant.

Larval foodplants

Bilberry.

Habitat

Heathland, moorland and woodland with Bilberry in the understory.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway only in 1977 for VC73 at Kirkconnell Flow by Duncan, and in 2014 for VC72 at Kelhead Flow, Annan.