Small
Elephant Hawk-moth
Deilephila
porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
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.....Usually trapped in small numbers at
sites in the Sherwood Forest area, but this moth seems to have increased
across the county in the past 20years and it is now almost annual in
many people's garden traps. The one photographed below, was trapped at
the Idle Valley NR in 2014, and brought to us by Phil
Cadman and Ian Hunt of the Lound Moth Group for inclusion here. |
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| Photographed at Market
Warsop June 2024 |
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| Photographed
at Lound GP May 2014 |
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Early stages |
| Ovae/eggs on
Bedstraw. Photographed at Market Warsop June 2024. |
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| 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 (commoner brown form) on Bedstraw. Photographed June 2023. |
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Full-grown larva (green form) on Bedstraw. Photographed July 2024. |
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