Lime-speck Pug

A moth of species-rich grassland, associated with low-growing composites.&nbsp; Widespread, though apparently absent from inland Exmoor.&nbsp; Most records are of small numbers at light, though it can occasionally be fairly common.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ochreous Pug

Not an especially common moth in Somerset, and missing from a vast swathe of the centre of the county, probably through lack of suitable (coniferous) foodplant, and also from inland Exmoor, probably through lack of recording.&nbsp; Commonest in a band through the south of the county, stretching from Yeovil through Taunton and then up to the Exmoor coast.&nbsp; Fewer, more scattered records in the Mendips and northward, especially around Bath.

Thyme Pug

Historically rare and local in the county, the species remains very local, recorded very irregularly in small numbers.&nbsp; It inhabits rocky cliffs, limestone quarries and sand-dunes, so in the county most records have been from the Bristol Channel coast. As the name suggests, the larval foodplant is Wild Thyme. It may be disturbed in the day in warm weather.

Thyme Pug

Eupithecia distinctaria