Beautiful Carpet Mesoleuca albicillata

Beautiful Carpet Mesoleuca albicillata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Status .....Currently only two Eakring records and in Nottinghamshire, the most regularly recorded examples of this moth, are from around parts of Sherwood Forest (Clipstone Old Quarter) where we occasionally record it flying along woodland rides at dusk.
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Photographed near Market Warsop June 2007		Photographed at Lound Wood June 2004

The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - Trevor and Dilys Pendleton. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. David Hursthouse. Sheila Wright (Nottinghamshire macro moth reports 2003-2012). Sherwood Forest Rothamsted trap results 1986-1990. Sherwood Forest Invertebrate Directory 2014. Sheila Wright (Nottinghamshire macro moth report 2015). Sheila Wright (Nottinghamshire macro moth report 2016). NBGRC. Sheila Wright (Nottinghamshire macro moth report 2017). Iain Leach, Kate Harte and Paul Baker (Budby South Forest Moth Trapping Results). Sheila Wright (Nottinghamshire macro moth report 2018). Sheila Wright (Nottinghamshire macro moth report 2019). Sheila Wright (Nottinghamshire macro moth report 2021). J.T. Radford.

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Updated January 2024


Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Beautiful Carpet