Identification

Care required in separating from other ‘pugs.’

Recording method

Can be found flying in hot sunshine near the foodplant juniper.  Comes readily to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg. Larvae are present April to early June, with pupation taking place among needles.

Larval foodplants

Common Juniper and cultivated Junipers.

Habitat

Moorland, upland sites and gardens with the foodplant.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC73 at Whinney Hill near Kirkconnell Flow by Lennon, in 1940 for VC72 at Tynron Juniper Wood by Duncan but not until 2015 for VC74 on the Mull of Galloway by Richard Mearns.