UK Status
Resident. Local S,C.
Montgomeryshire
Status
Rarely recorded in the county, but a healthy breeding population does
exist at Llanymynech Rocks in the northeast corner of
Montgomeryshire. It has also been recorded at one site in the west of
the county.
Wingspan
: M
& F, 12-14mm.
Confusion
species
Lead-coloured Pug and Slender Pug. |
Flight
time (Montgomeryshire)
Habitat
Most places where the native foodplant occurs.
Foodplant
The flowers and buds of traveller's joy and other species of cultivated
clematis.
Lifestage data
Overwinters as a pupa in a cocoon lying on the ground. Larva
July-August. |
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