Heath
Rustic Xestia
agathina (Duponchel, 1827)  |
Status
.....Largely confined to the heathlands
lying on Sherwood Sandstone, with the majority of recent
county records coming from the Sherwood Forest area.
Occasional wanderers can turn up anywhere, and there have
been recent records from two former gravel pits in the
Trent Valley, Misson Carr, Bestwood village, Treswell Wood and an
Attenborough garden. Grateful thanks to members of the Lound Moth Group,
for providing the IVNR specimen. |
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Photographed
at the Idle Valley NR, August 2018 |
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Photographed
at Treswell Wood August 2024 |
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Early stages  |
Half-grown larva. Photographed at Rainworth Heath May 2024. |
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Half grown larva,
photographed at Rainworth Heath April 2018 |
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Full
grown larva. Photographed at Rainworth Heath May 2018 |
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