Wormwood Pug Eupithecia absinthiata
Status .....One Eakring record.
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Photographed at Red Hill August 2011.   Photographed at Sherwood Forest CP August 2008.
 
     
     
Ling Pug Eupithecia absinthiata f. goossensiata ..... For comparison
Status .....Regarded by some authorities to be a heathland form of Wormwood Pug. Common on Budby South Forest and in areas of heath at Sherwood Forest CP and probably throughout the Sherwood Forest NNR..
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Photographed at Sherwood Forest CP August 2009.
 
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UK distribution of Wormwood/Ling Pug
 

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