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Mire Pill Beetle

Curimopsis nigrita

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Byrrhidae

Thorne and Hatfield Moors form the largest area of lowland raised peat bog in the United Kingdom. They are situated in South Yorkshire, to the north-east and east of Doncaster near the town of Thorne, and are part of Hatfield Chase. They had been used for small-scale extraction of peat for fuel from medieval times, and probably much earlier, but commercial extraction of the peat for animal bedding began in the 1880s.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 4