| A distinctive
Woodlouse which is often recorded from old quarries, garden
centres and brownfield sites. Armadillidium nasatum
had been well recorded in Leicestershire for a number of
years (Daws, J.), before several specimens were found new to
Nottinghamshire, under a small bag of sand lying on
gravel at the Southwell Garden Centre.
It has since turned up at a number of other
garden centres and former colliery sites, with an obviously long
established population found to be present on the sites of the former
Bilsthorpe Colliery and Warsop Main Colliery at Warsop Vale (Pendleton, T.A. and Pendleton ,
D.T.). There is an attractive red
form shown below, making up a small proportion of any population. |
