Status
.....Rare in
Nottinghamshire and usually appearing slightly earlier in
the year than other migrant Hawk-moths. There was a recent run of records
concerning both adults and larvae each year between 2003 and
2011 (including one nectaring at Valerian near Eakring on September 9th
2006), with blank years in 2005 and
2010. It is not entirely improbable, that a small population has bred
for a number of years in the Mansfield/Sherwood Forest area, based on
the number of records from that area.
Two photographically proven
records which were not reported to the county recorder, concerned an adult nectaring at Buddleia
at
King's Mill Reservoir on September 6th 2013
(Lowe, A.) and of a larva at Sherwood Pines
on July 15th 2017 and for several years subsequently
(Lowe, A.). The most recent (officially
documented) records have been from Bestwood Village on July
31st 2019 (Tobin, S.) and Stanton-on-the-Wolds on
August 1st 2019 (Mathers, S.). |
