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

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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Grey Puag and Common Pug.

Recording method

Can be disturbed from vegetation by day. Flies from dusk. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

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

Larval foodplants

Flowers of many herbaceous plants.

Habitat

Plantations, woodland, saltmarshes and other coastal areas.

History

The first record for Dumfries and Galloway was in 1897 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who found it ‘not uncommon’.  The next record was over a hundred years later in 2005 for VC73 at the Wood of Cree and 2011 for VC72 at Kirkton.