Identification

Care required to separate from other ‘pugs’. Easily confused with Common Pug but that has a rougher texture to it.

Recording method

Adults an be found on valerian flowers by day particularly before dusk.  Larvae in flowerheads of Common Valerian. Comes to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa among plant debris close to the ground. Larvae are present July to mid-August.

Larval foodplants

Common Valerian.

Habitat

Wet situations like fens and damp woodlands.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1984 for VC73 near New Galloway by West, then in 2012 for VC72 at Courance by Brian Henderson and in 2012 for VC74 near Stranraer by Neil O’Donnell.