Great Oak Beauty Hypomecis roboraria
Status .....First recorded at Eakring in 2007. A Nationally Scarce B moth in the UK, with it's stronghold in several southern counties. There are scattered colonies in Buckinghamshire and Shropshire, with the northern-most colony in Sherwood Forest. This was not an expected species at Eakring.
     
Photographed at Sherwood Forest June 2009
 
     
Photographed at Lound Wood June 2007   Size comparison with Mottled Beauty (top) photographed June 2007
 
 
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