Status
.....This moth is probably widespread
over much of Nottinghamshire, yet this larval case
represented the first county record, as far as we are
aware. Coleophora artemisicolella was only
recently recorded for the first time Lincolnshire, just
yards over the Notts/Lincs border. That find by Martin
Gray, prompted us to start searching and it took over two
weeks and many hundreds of flower heads later, to find
it. The larval case (made from an empty seedhead) proved
to be one of the most difficult of all the Coleophoras
to locate. Recorded again at Clipstone Old Quarter in February 2022. |