Probably now something of an unrecorded beetle in Nottinghamshire now,
compared to when the food and retail industry was less clean in its
standards of practice. Dermestes lardarius is now reduced to something of
a rarity and modern records are very few. The NBN Atlas lists two modern
records (from the Nottingham and Mansfield areas) but those records were
only supplied with a two-figure grid reference, which in effect renders
the value of such records to the point of being completely useless.
However, there are two very recent Nottinghamshire records, both coming
from sites quite close together. One was recorded at Colwick Woods by
Wil Heeney in April 2014 and the one below was found inside a factory at
Stoke Bardolph in April 2023 and kindly provided for photographing to
illustrate the species by Nick and Samantha Brownley. |
