Moths of Dungeness and Surrounding Area
Years

<1990
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
 
Days

2
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
L
L
0
 
 


DEATH'S HEAD HAWK-MOTH
Acherontia atropos


Area Status:   Scarce Migrant
British Status:   Migrant
  Site  
Dungeness
 DB
 SC
 KR
 CR
 Rspb
 DW
Greatstone
 KA
 BB
 RC
 JJ
 PT
 R&JT 
Littlestone  
 KR
Lydd
 EC
 PC
 KR
 CT
 JW
N.Romney
 SC
 KR A
 KR B
 

      Recorded on two dates prior to 1990, at Rspb Reserve 6th October 73 (RE.Scott) and Dungeness 20th
      July 74 (P.Follett). The only record cited for the area in JMC-H is the former. Several pupae found in
      potato fields in Lydd and New Romney in a few of the years in the late fifties and sixties (per E.Carpenter).

      Since then, found dead in Greatstone August 91.
                                            Dungeness 18th August 94.
                                            Dungeness 10th October 95.
                                            Littlestone 21st July 96.
                                            Rspb 22nd, 26th (S.Warry) August 01.
                                            Littlestone,  in the garden of J.Todd 8th October 04.
                                            Dungeness, larva on potato 30th July 05.
                                            New Romney, larva found wandering 28th July 06 (F.Duke).
 
         
 
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