Thursday 19 December 2019

Southern Chestnut confirmed in Berkshire

In 2018 Paul Black found what we thought was the first Berkshire record of Southern Chestnut. A big thank you to Peter Hall for providing the full confirmation of this via dissection, and for adding one of his immaculate photos to the Moth Dissection website.

https://upperthamesmoths.blogspot.com/2018/10/another-first-for-berkshire.html

As can be seen in the new moth atlas, prior to this Berkshire record Southern Chestnut was confined to an area around the New Forest heathlands, and it was a very welcome surprise when Paul discovered it at Snelsmore Common. Paul has seem several more of them in 2019, thanks to his dedicated late-season mothing (Southern Chestnut files in October and November)!


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