Butterfly Diary
- field notes by Adrian Hoskins
my earliest
sightings of each brood are highlighted in bold type
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Sightings
policy - details of certain sites where visitor pressure
or trampling may pose a threat to butterflies or alienate
landowners are excluded from these pages.
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2010
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June
Saturday 26th
June
The first White-letter Hairstreak of the year was reported
from Brighton yesterday, and the first Essex Skippers
reported from Thorney Island, West Sussex. Dark Green Fritillaries
and Marbled Whites are now at the peak of their flight season at
their sites in Hampshire. So far there have been no reports of
Purple Emperor, but these will almost certainly appear within the
next couple of days in the woodlands of Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey
and Wiltshire.
Monday 21st
June
I've been in Peru for
the last 3 weeks, so please excuse the lack of recent UK sightings
on this page. Friends tell me that Black Hairstreak,
Purple Hairstreak,
Large Blue, Silver-studded Blue, Heath
Fritillary, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Dark
Green Fritillary, Silver-washed Fritillary, Large
Skipper, Small Skipper, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Marbled White and White
Admiral have all appeared in southern England during my absence.
PERU trip report
- Photos, species
accounts and a full trip report will be published in due
course, but in the meantime a provisional report can be
found
here.
For those more interested in British
butterflies, here is a selection of species photographed in
early-mid June last year :
Adonis
Blue
Lysandra bellargus, male, Ballard
Down, Dorset
Black Hairstreak
Satyrium pruni, female nectaring
at bramble, Northants
Common Blue
Polyommatus icarus, male,
Ballard Down, Dorset
Large Skipper Ochlodes venata,
freshly emerged male, Wiltshire
Large Blue
Maculinea arion, female, Collard
Hill, Somerset
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