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Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth

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Date Site OS Grid Ref Stage Quantity Comment
1890 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Not recorded 1+ Ellis (1890), Mansbridge (1940)
1890 Red Rocks, Hoylake SJ2088 Not recorded 1+ West Kirby, Ellis (1890), Mansbridge (1940), grid reference unknown.
1885 Cheshire Unknown Not recorded 1+ East Cheshire - Walker (1885)
1885 Delamere SJ5570 Not recorded 1+ undated, Walker (1885), Day (1903)
1885 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Not recorded 1+ Walker (1885)
1879 Bidston Moss SJ2891 Adult 1 in june, undated, grid reference not provided, Young Nat. 1:244-246
1869 Wallasey SJ2692 Adult 1+ Newman's Entomologist 5:32ii-iii, grid reference not provided.
1854 Bidston SJ2891 Larval 1+ undated. about Bidston. larvae in moderate plenty, where Epilobium hirsutum grows abundantly. Byerley (1854)
1852 New Brighton SJ3094 Larval 3 Chaerocampa porcellus, three reared from larvae and three adults caught, The Zool. 11:3776, grid reference not provided. Plentiful, especially in the larval state at New Brighton. more rarely inland. Undated. Byerley (1854)
1847 Liscard SJ3091 Adult 1 Choerocampa porcellus, not rare, The Zool. 6:2031, grid reference not provided


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