Status
.....It seems unlikely that this moth has ever
really been perminently resident in Nottinghamshire before and indeed, it declined
generally from many UK sites over the past decades, with many
recent UK records thought to refer to migrants from the continent. The one
illustrated, was trapped at MV light and photographed by Tim Sexton at
Attenborough NR in April 2019, which followed one at Broadholme on
22/04/11 (Gray, M.). Both these records
were the first in the county for over a century.
But it seems that there may be a potentially developing story regarding this
species, with a cluster of records from the south-east of the county in
2024 and 2025, featuring singles attracted to light at Saxondale on
22/03/24 (Cooper, C.) East Bridgford on
26/03/25 and again on 11/04/25 (Reece, J. and Reece,
L.), from Dewberry Hill GC on 12/04/25
(Dulwich, P.). and Stanton-on-the-Wolds
on 19/03/26 (Mathers, S.). Current speculation
is along the lines that this moth is in the process of colonising Nottinghamshire,
which has been somewhat confirmed by the discovery of numerous larvae at
the former Calverton Colliery site in May 2026
(Brownley, N. and Brownley, S.). |
