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Micropterix aureatella
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| This is presumably a very rare moth in Nottinghamshire and rare through Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) being the larval foodplant. Bilberry is restricted to Thieves Wood and also to a small area of Sherwood Forest CP, but on finding this moth while examining some larval spinnings on Bilberry at Theives Wood near Mansfield, I had no idea of the plant's significance to this moth at the time. | ||
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| Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of
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