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Sesia bembeciformis Lunar Hornet Moth

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Date Site OS Grid Ref Stage Quantity Comment
07 Jul 1904 Delamere Forest SJ5571 Adult 1 grid reference not provided.
1903 Hale SJ7786 Not recorded 1+ undated, Day (1903)
1903 Bowdon SJ7587 Not recorded 1+ undated, Day (1903)
1903 Rock Ferry SJ3386 Not recorded 1+ undated, Day (1903)
1903 Wallasey SJ2792 Not recorded 1+ undated, Day (1903)
1895 Danes Moss SJ9070 Adult 1 on osier, Ent., Vol, XXVIII., p. 267, Day (1903)
1893 Bidston SJ2889 Pupal 2 grid reference unknown, specimen(s) in the Grosvenor Museum, 'once in a sallow stem 3 feet long and 4 inches girth I counted 17 empty pupa cases in situ', Day (1903)
1886 Birkenhead SJ3288 Adult 1 Trochilium craboniformis. Several emerged from young Lombardy Poplars. date and grid reference not provided. Entom. 20:96-105
1885 Cheshire Unknown Not recorded 1+ East Cheshire, Walker (1885)
1885 Upton, Chester SJ4068 Not recorded 1+ undated, at Upton Nurseries near Chester, Walker (1885)
1885 Wirral SJ28 Not recorded 1+ common North Wirral. , Walker (1885), Day (1903), Smith (1948)
22 Jul 1869 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 Newman's Entomologist 5:32ii-iii, grid reference not provided.


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