Dentated Pug

Nationally scarce and very local, with strongholds in the Norfolk Broads, Cambridgeshire fens, New Forest and east Dorset. A species of woodland and scrub in fens, marshes and along river banks, where the larval foodplant, Yellow Loosestrife, grows. Only one modern record in the county, at Burnett, west of Bath, in June 2009.&nbsp; Perhaps searching stands of Yellow Loosestrife in the Avalon marshes in June and July could produce more records - it was known from this area in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Fern

Widespread though rather local, largely in calcareous areas supporting the larval foodplant traveller's joy Clematis vitalba.&nbsp; Commonest in parts of the Blackdowns, the Poldens, the Mendip scarp and around Weston-super-Mare and Bath.&nbsp; Largely absent from inland Exmoor, the Quantocks and the Levels, probably through lack of foodplant.&nbsp; Most usually recorded as single individuals to light, especially in gardens.

Pretty Chalk Carpet

Widespread but largely restricted to calcareous areas, and usually only a handful of records each year.&nbsp; Occasional in gardens but sometimes attracted to light in some numbers in woodland on calcareous soils.

Pretty Chalk Carpet

Melanthia procellata