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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with other pug species but particularly Grey Pug.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae May to July. Pupates in loose earth.

Larval foodplants

The leaves of a wide variety of trees and plants, including Hawthorn, sallows, Bramble, ragworts and Hogweed.

Habitat

A wide range of of open and wooded habitats.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC72 near Dumfries by Lennon who said it was ‘rather common around the Dumfries area’, in 1870 for VC73 in Colvend parish by White and in 1899 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who found it ‘common and generally distributed, especially abundant on hops at Corsemalzie’.