Status
.....An
annual migrant to southern coastal areas, but much rarer inland and in
view of the increase in other, once very rare migrants, is probably going
to become increasingly more likely over the coming years. Nevertheless,
it is still surprising that Nottinghamshire currently has just three records,
of singles attracted to light
at Broadholme on September 8th 2011 (Gray, M.), Misterton on July 25th 2026
(Lee, P.), Mansfield on July 28th 2026
(Hurst, I.) and Underwood on August 8th
(Hector Brown, K.). Grateful thanks to Ian
Hurst, who very kindly provided the moth in the photographs below.
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. |
