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Family: Geometridae   Checklist Number: 70.183

Eupithecia vulgata  (Haworth, 1809)

Common Pug

Widely recorded across the islands with well over a hundred records, biased towards the southern islands. The fight period is from May to July over scrub, gardens and hedgerows. The larvae feed on willows (Salix spp.), hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) and brambles in the family Rosaceae.

References: 
Leverton, R. & Cubitt, M. (2024). The Larger Moths of Scotland.
Waring, P. & Townsend, M. (2018 third edition). Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

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