Red List: Near Threatened (NT). GB Status: Common.

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Golden-rod Pug and Grey Pug.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae late June to late September. Pupates in plant debris or loose soil.

Larval foodplants

Elder flowers for the first generation, with umbellifers for the next generation as well as Goldenrod and Ragwort..

Habitat

Roadside verges, river banks and ditches, fens, hedgerows and woodland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway not until 1962 for VC73 at Palnackie and Rockcliffe by Pelham-Clinton, in 1980 for VC72 at the Waterside Rothamsted light trap.