| With
apparent changes to our climate over recent years, it's perhaps not too
much of a surprise to have this beetle recently added to the
Nottinghamshire fauna. This is quite a large species, found at many
coastal sites where it occurs as its name implies, in sand dunes and at
the top of beaches. Similar at first glance to the incredibly common
Garden Chafer Phyllopertha horticola , Nottinghamshire's first
records came in 2023, when Brian Wetton found Anomala dubia at
Spalford Warren, with another record coming from the same site a few
weeks later. |
