Maple Pug

The moth is restricted to calcareous areas where its foodplant, Field Maple <i>Acer campestre</i> grows.&nbsp; Here it is widespread, though thinly scattered and never seems to occur in numbers.

Haworth's Pug

Uses the calcicole Traveller's Joy <i>Clematis vitalba</i>&nbsp;as a host plant, and not surprisingly the moth is associated with calcareous areas; largely absent from the Levels and the upland west of the county, though with a cluster of records around Porlock suggesting an isolated resident population.

Slender Pug

Thinly scattered across the county wherever there are stands of sallows - the larvae feed internally within sallow catkins.&nbsp; It is not often recorded at light in gardens, and is perhaps easier to find by collecting fallen sallow catkins in the spring and rearing through.&nbsp; There are no records from the south-eastern corner of the county, which may reflect under-recording or an absence of suitable sallows.

Slender Pug

Eupithecia tenuiata