Herald Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnaeus, 1758) ![](http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds5/textbanner04.jpg) |
Status
.....Fairly common in Nottinghamshire,
but never very frequently attracted to MV light.
Over-winters as an adult in caves, railway tunnels, cellars and
outbuildings etc. In January 2023, approximately 50 individual moths
were found over-wintering in an old railway tunnel situated along a
former mineral line in the north of Nottinghamshire. |
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Photographed at Sherwood
Forest CP July 2009 |
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Photographed at Eakring
Field Farm September 2003 |
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Early stages ![](http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds5/textbanner04.jpg) |
Full-grown larva on Goat Sallow Salix caprea, photographed at
Sherwood Forest CP May 2023. |
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