Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Common.

Identification

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

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a pupa.. Larvae June to July and again September. Pupates in loose earth.

Larval foodplants

Black Currant and Red Currant.

Habitat

Gardens and allotments, but also in open woodland and scrub where wild Red and Black Currants are found.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1870 for VC73 in Colvend parish by White, in 1910 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who records ‘two taken at dusk near the Malzie Burn’ and in 1950 for VC72 at Tynron by Duncan.