Common pug
The common pug is a small moth whose colours change a lot from one moth to the next. Its front wings can be brown, reddish, yellowish or whitish, with fine wavy lines. It flies at night and loves to come to lights.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is long and thin, grey green or light brown, with darker diamond shaped spots on its back.
There are two broods a year, flying in May and June and again in August.
It spends the winter as a pupa.
In the Alps it lives as high as 1,500 metres up the mountains.
Most asked questions about Common pug
?What does the common pug eat?
Its caterpillars eat many plants, like yarrow, hawthorn, willow and bilberry.
?When does the common pug fly?
At night, in May and June and again in August. It often comes to lights.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eupithecia vulgata
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Common pug (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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