On the Nottinghamshire list through J.W. Carr's listing of an
undated record from Sherwood Forest by W.J. Sterland, in his book 'The
Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire. Nottingham: J.& H. Bell Ltd
(1916)' and published despite Carr lacking
trust in many of Sterland's records.
Carr felt that Sterland's list contained so many
improbable species and records (and to be honest it did) that he thought they must have been
collected by Trueman from other parts of the country, or
recieved by him, from other collectors.
However improbable the occurence of Orache Moth in Nottinghamshire was,
or still is, there has to be an element of open-mindedness about it
turning up in land-locked Nottinghamshire today, purely on the basis
that so many, once unlikely migratory species are now occurring,
sometimes well inland, that just about anything could be possible. |
