One recorded in the old
garden of a now demolished house at Fountaindale near Mansfield in July
2017 (Pendleton, T.A. and Pendleton, D.T.),
was thought for a number of years to be the first county record of this
distinctive Longhorn. But it had actually been recorded in Nottinghamshire
on three previous occasions, including Cotgrave Forest
(Wetton, B.) and Idle Stop
(Lee, P.) in 2014 and at Cotgrave
Forest again in 2017 (Archibald, L.).
But there have been three recent records within a a single week in July
2024, concerning a female at Clipstone Old Quarter
(Pendleton, T.A.) a
male at Stapleford Woods
(Johnson, R.) on 23/07/24 and another
female at Clumber Park on 31/07/24
(Pendleton, T.A.).
Stictoleptura rubra is known to be present just over the border in
Lincolnshire at Laughton Forest and is apparently common in East Anglia.
It has spread into
other parts of the UK, including south Wales, no doubt
benefitting from the widescale planting of commercial
Pine Forestry. |
