Status
.....Primarily regarded by most
authorities as a migrant, despite the possibility of this moth being
resident in the Breckland district of East Anglia. The number of reports
from southern counties has increased in recent years, but
at one time, Nottinghamshire's only records were of singles
attracted to MV light at Broadholme on August 22nd 2003
(Gray, M.), before one at Elkesley on July 30th 2019
(Coombes, P.).
In early September
2022, there was an unprecedented influx both nationally, and into VC56,
with records from Broadholme September 1st 2022 (Gray, M.), two at Tollerton
(Watson, T.) and a single at Lound Wood, Eakring (Pendleton, T.A.) on September 2nd 2022, a
single at Underwood (Hector Brown, K.)
on September 3rd and then a single at Misterton
(Lee, P.) before another two at Red Hill, Eakring on September 4th (Pendleton, T.A.).
A note on Broadholme records:
Broadholme is in vice county VC56 of Nottinghamshire (which is covered
by www.eakringbirds.com), but not in the administrative county of
Nottinghamshire on which the county's moth records are based by
the county macromoth recorder. As such, no Broadholme records appear in
any county reports, but they are officially recognised by Butterfly
Conservation as being Nottinghamshire records. |
