Emperor
Moth Saturnia pavonia (Linnaeus,
1758)  |
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.....A moth with perhaps an unexpected
distribution in Nottinghamshire. Virtually all the
county's few recent records have come from Trent Valley
sites such as Netherfield, Attenborough, Besthorpe,
Cotham and most recently Spalford Warren and yet it
remains only a historically occurring moth of more
expected heathland sites which make up the Sherwood
Forest NNR. The male is shown in the lower two
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| Captive bred
female, photographed April 2018 |
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Early stages |
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instar larva on Bramble. Photographed at Gunthorpe GP May 2022. |
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Early instar larva on Bramble. Photographed
at Gunthorpe GP June 2022. |
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Mid-instar larva. Photographed at Gunthorpe
GP June 2022. |
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Larva. Photographed at Gunthorpe
GP June 2022. |
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Near full-grown larva. Photographed at Gunthorpe
GP July 2022. |
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Full-grown larva. Photographed at Gunthorpe
GP July 2022. |
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| Cocoon
on Heather Calluna vulgaris. Photographed February 2022. |
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