Maiden's Blush Cyclophora punctaria
(Linnaeus, 1758) ![](http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds5/textbanner04.jpg) |
Status
.....Common around the Sherwood Forest
area, which seems to be the county's stronghold for this
moth. Generally widespread over most of Nottinghamshire,
although there is something of a gap in the distribution map along the
Trent Valley, north of Nottingham. |
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Photographed at Sherwood
Forest CP August 2010 |
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Photographed at Sherwood
Forest CP August 2008 |
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Photographed at Sherwood
Forest CP August 2010 |
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Photographed at Lound
Wood June 2007 |
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Early stages ![](http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds5/textbanner04.jpg) |
Near
full-grown larva (later died). Photographed at Sherwood Forest, December
26th 2023. |
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Pupa. Photographed at Clipstone Old Quarter,
October 2020. |
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