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.
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Photographed at Sherwood Forest June 2009
 
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Photographed at Lound Wood June 2007   Size comparison with Mottled Beauty (top) photographed June 2007
 
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UK distribution of Great Oak Beauty
 

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Updated September 2011

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