| Discovered new to Nottinghamshire
in April 2015, when recorded from
Attenborough NR by Tim Sexton. Formerly
recorded in the UK as an RDB1 species and only from Box Hill in
Surrey, Box Bug has rapidly increased it's range to cover
large parts of the south-eastern UK in recent years. It reached the
neighbouring county of
Leicestershire in 2014, so its
occurrence in Nottinghamshire was only to be expected. Now
found on a variety of trees and shrubs, but particularly Box (Buxus
sempervirens) and Yew (Taxus baccata), although has been found on a
range of other trees and shrubs. |
