Clouded Buff Diacrisia sannio
(Linnaeus, 1758)  |
Status
.....Rare and predominantly restricted to heathland
sites in the Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park areas of Nottinghamshire.
Can occasionally be seen during the day, when it can be disturbed from
grassy heathland around the Gleadthorpe Open within the Sherwood Forest
Country Park.
The young larva overwinters while small, something
which helps with the identification, as it could be mistaken for the
young larvae of Buff and White Ermine, but these moths both pass the
Winter in the pupal stage and are not found as young larvae until later
in the year. |
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| Photographed at Sherwood
Forest CP June 2009 |
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Female, photographed at
Sherwood Forest CP June 2009 |
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| Photographed
at Sherwood Forest CP June 2007 |
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Early stages |
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Overwintering larva (length 7mm) found on a Wasp Spider (Argiope
bruennichi) egg sac, photographed at Clumber Park, February 2025. |
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Larva (length 20mm) photographed at Clumber Park, April 2025. |
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