Black
Arches
Lymantria
monacha (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
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.....First recorded at Eakring on July
31st 2007, which was the first Nottinghamshire record
since 1970 and came a day before another was also taken
at light in a Ravenshead garden. Further moths were taken
from Lound Wood over the following nights, then again in
2008, when it was also recorded for the first time from
the Sherwood Forest NNR. It is probably quite widespread
now in north Nottinghamshire. |
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| Male photographed at
Lound Wood July 2008 |
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Female photographed at
Sherwood Forest CP July 2010 |
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Early stages |
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3rd-instar larva (10mm) on Oak Quercus robor. Photographed at Clipstone Old Quarter May 2024. |
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Half-grown larva (18mm) on Oak Quercus robor. Photographed at Clipstone Old Quarter May 2023. |
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Full-grown larva on Oak Quercus robor. Photographed at
Clipstone Old Quarter June 2023. |
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