Status
.....It seems highly unlikely that this moth has ever
really been perminently resident in Nottinghamshire and it has declined
generally from many UK sites over the past number of years, with many
recent 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 from Saxondale in
22/03/24 (Cooper, C.) East Bridgford on
26/03/25 and 11/04/25 (Reece, J. and Reece,
L.) and from Dewberry Hill GC on 12/04/25
(Dulwich, P.). Current speculation, is
along the lines of this moth perhaps being in the process of colonising
the UK and Nottinghamshire, but there have been large numbers of presumed migrants,
turning up along some parts of the south coast too. |
