Status
.....Once restricted to the Channel Islands and a
number of sites along the UK's south coast,
in recent years the Jersey Tiger's
range has increased substantially and it is continuing to move north at
a rate.
Nottinghamshire's first record came from a Worksop garden on
August 5th 2020 (Cadman, P.) occurring during a spell of
warm, southerly
winds. At the time, this surprising record was not expected to be part
of the northerly range expansion the moth has since undergone, and its
Nottinghamshire status has subsequently changed considerably over the
last few years.
In 2021 there were two more
Nottinghamshire records,
from Kirkby-in-Ashfield (O'Connor, L.)
and Rainworth (Robinson, D.) on August
5th 2021 (exactly a year to the day of the county's first record). There
followed a blank year in 2022, but in 2023, there were records from
eight sites between July 19th and August 9th, including multiple
counts/records from sites at Skegby and Mansfield. 2024 followed in a
similar fashion, with a total of six records from six sites between July
28th and August 12th. This again included multiple records from the same
Mansfield site as in 2023.
2025 saw a huge irruption of this
moth across some southern UK counties, although the only Nottinghamshire
record I'm aware of, is from Worksop in July 2025. |
