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Cionus longicollis

This is a Nationally Scarce beetle found mainly in the Norfolk and Suffolk Brecks. I found them several times in 2019 and 2020 on Great Mullein growing along a local disused railway. Unfortunately the mullein is regularly sprayed by the Mid Norfolk Railway Company and I haven't seen them since (though I haven't looked very carefully most years so they could still be hanging on) and I have seen the much common and more widespread Figwort Weevil Cionus scrophulariae there.


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2x Cionus longicollis, North Elmham railway below the Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 21st July 2019


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2x Cionus longicollis, North Elmham railway below the Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 20th July 2020


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Cionus longicollis, North Elmham railway below the Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 24th August 2020


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Cionus longicollis, North Elmham railway below the Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 26th June 2020