Notocelia roborana
Summer Rose Bell
Epiblema roborana
Wingspan 18 to 21 mm.
Gardens, parks and other areas where rose species are found.
Moths are at large between June and August.
The larva feeds mainly on Rose (Rosa), forming a spinning amongst the leaves or shoots.
It is fairly common and well distributed through the British Isles. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland. L&R Moth Group status = A (common and resident).
Pete Leonard
nr Jericho Covert
26 July 2021
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
03 July 2018
Confirmed by gen det
egaten
Thurlaston garden
24 June 2018
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Species profile
- Common names
- Large Rose Shoot Moth, Summer Rose Bell
- Species group:
- insect - moth
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Tortricidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 48
- First record:
- 24/06/2003 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 17/07/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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andrew johnson
dadlington
19 July 2013
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Harecroft Crescent
29 July 2020
Pete Leonard
Foxhall, Harby
02 July 2018
