Buff Ermine

Spilosoma lutea

(Hufnagel, 1766)

National assessment
Unassessed
Local assessment
Unassessed

Statistics

Occurrences
4,264 since 2000 5,086 all time
Occupied 1 km squares
214 since 2000 238 all time
Earliest occurrence
1951
Latest occurrence
2024

Distribution

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Occurrence since 1950

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This chart should not be relied upon for an indication of species status as variations in recording effort can heavily affect the count of occurrences and occupied 1km squares.

Threatened species recovery actions

Actions from Threatened Species Recovery Actions 2025 Baseline published by Natural England.

Untargeted habitat management
This species would benefit from untargeted habitat management to increase habitat mosaics, structural diversity, or particular successional stages

Data sources

Local species recorders
Biological Records Centre. iRecord (CC-BY). Licenced under CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.
Buglife.
Lincolnshire Biodiversity Partnership (now the GLNP).
Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
Natural England. Invertebrate Common Standards Monitoring and ISIS Test Data. Licenced under OGL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.
Sustainable Caistor.