Pinion-spotted Pug
21st April 2009, Tuesday
Just when I thought I was being upstaged by those chaps down at the Harbour with their Viper’s Bugloss Moth, I found this Pinion-spotted Pug by my trap in Rye this morning. This species is classed as Nationally Scarce and is confined to C and S England with outposts in N Kent and Romney Marsh. The main larval foodplant is hawthorn, sometimes apple, and the habitat is most often hedges along old lanes, woodland edges and occasionally gardens and orchards. It’s another new and unexpected addition to my garden list.