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Puss Moth

Cerura vinula

803Records since 2000
MayPeak month
61Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb5
Mar7
Apr114
May360
Jun160
Jul79
Aug14
Sep5
Oct1
Nov2
Dec3

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland177
2Oxfordshire England61
3Highland Scotland58
4Argyll and Bute Scotland56
5Worcestershire England34
6Cambridgeshire England23
7West Berkshire England16
8Gwynedd Wales11
9Kent England9
10Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland9
11Surrey England7
12Bracknell Forest England7
13Sefton England6
14Pembrokeshire Wales6
15Isle of Anglesey Wales6
412 England317 Scotland38 Wales35 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 61 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
803
Peak month
May
Counties with records
61
Scientific name
Cerura vinula
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
655
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Notodontidae
Genus
Cerura
Name with authority
Cerura vinula Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q151543 · GBIF 1825156