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 four much better recorded recent Nottinghamshire
records, including singles from Colwick Woods (Heeney.
W.) in April 2014, a factory at
Stoke Bardolph in April 2023 (Brownley, N. and
Brownley, S.) from inside a garden shed at Rainworth in 2026
(Brownley, N. and Brownley, S.) and
indoors at Market Warsop in April 2026
(Pendleton, T.A.). Grateful thanks go to Nick and Samantha Brownley, who kindly provided
the specimen to illustrate this species below. |
