Status
.....Very rare in Nottinghamshire, with a handful
of recent
records following a gap in the county's records of over a century,
before one was recorded at Radcliffe-on-Trent on November 3rd 2019
(Sumbler, M.). There is evidence that
this moth is now increasing in the UK, and as if to illustrate this, two individuals
were both trapped on the same night, with one in Martin Gray's
Broadholme garden on 24/03/22, and another to a trap run by Colin Watkin
at Eaton Wood near Retford.
Other records include singles at
Radcliffe-on-Trent on 20/02/23 (Easter, M.),
followed two years later by others to MV light at Gamston Wood on
20/02/25 and at Besthorpe NR on 20/03/25 (both Pendleton, T.A.)
and at Misterton on 31/03/25 (Lee, P.). It
looks likely that this species is set to become more regular in the next
few years? |
