Noctua pronuba - migration?
Martin Honey
M.Honey at nhm.ac.uk
Tue Mar 9 08:50:19 EST 1999
Just in case it is of interest to others, here's a copy of my response to
the original pronuba request:
>At 02:07 PM 3/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Can someone tell me whether Noctua pronuba (Large yellow underwing) is a
>>migratory species and if so, where I can find a reference to this behavior.
>>Thanks.
Certainly here in Britain it is assumed to be migratory, at times. The most
recent paper I know of to speculate on this is :
Howard, R.A. 1999. Possible migration of Noctua pronuba (L.) (Lepidoptera:
Noctuidae) at the Lizard Point, Cornwall. Entomologist's Gazette 50: 33-38.
It gives details of between 8-10,000 specimens of pronuba in one light-trap
plus the sea in the area being "littered" with corpses.
Martin
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