Small
Elephant Hawk-moth
Deilephila
porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| Status
.....Usually trapped in small numbers at
sites in the Sherwood Forest area. There are occasional
records from other parts of Nottinghamshire, including a
single Eakring record in 2003. The one photographed, was
trapped at Lound GP in 2014 and brought to us by Phil
Cadman and Ian Hunt of the Lound Moth Group. Listed as
Grade 3 in Nottinghamshire. |
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| Photographed
at Lound GP May 2014 |
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Early stages |
| Second-instar larva on Bedstraw. Photographed June 2023. |
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| Fourth-instar larva on Bedstraw. Photographed June 2023. |
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Full-grown larva on Bedstraw. Photographed June 2023. |
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