TheSuffolkArgus
Footnote on the Qrayling by Richard Stewart Rob Parker's article in the summer 2006 edition highlighted the current concern for this species. Although the 1995-1999 Millennium Surveyproduced a 2 km. tettad increase of 62.4 % on the previous Suffolk survey numbers of tettads covered per year were down to 40 in 2000. We have lost it from our garden in Westerfield Road, Ipswich, since 2004. It always came to feed on buddleia. I have aJsonot recorded it from Rushmere Common in the last two years. Rob also highlighted something about the Grayling that very few butterfly books include, that is its frequent landing on humans, more so than any other butterfly I have encountered.
Spring2007 I also noted this in Grayling species while on holiday in the Spanish Pyrenees. It will land repeatedly on everything from head to toe and on 27th. August 2006 while I was walking my transect between Tuddenham and Playford I paused to test this out. A few Grayling are usually present and I st<>Qd still when one settled on me, shaking my body slightly to put it off but still remaining in the same spot. Incredibly it landed on me twenty times in about two minutes, and would probably have continued to do so had I not moved on.
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programme are enclosed in the form of the usual separate card which should be easy to carry around with you. We welcome contributions to the magazine from all our branch members, and we are able to include one such article in this edition. Anyone else who has experiencesto share is most welcome to send their ideas to me and I will pass them on. We are lucky to have the services of, now and in the past, some outstanding illustrators. Beryl Johnson is alwayswilling to lend a hand providing her highly skilled art work for the magazine and I thank her for her contribution. She sets a high standard to live up to, but perhaps there is someone our there who would like to try! I hope that the magazine continues to prove useful to the branch's many members and remember, please let me have any comments or criticisms, which can only help the magazine improve in the future.
Editorial by PeteRowberry I have survived the "trauma"of producing my first edition of Suffolk Argus and have come backfor more. I actually found the process very enjoyable and I hope that the edition lived up to expectations. It is with the greatest regret therefore, that I have to say that illness in my family and the need to return to gainful employment mean that I have to resign &om the position of editor. I thank the many contributon and hdpers and wish to personally thankMalcolm Farrow for stepping into the breach at short notice. It has been a pleasure dealing with those who send material for the magazine and the branch organisers, all of whom have been so tolerant and hdpful. This edition of the magazine contains the last of the field trip reports from 2006, as well as contribution from the Chairman of the West Midlands branch, giving yours truly a serious ticking off for my disparaging remarks about Birmingham's wildlife in the last edition! Rob Parker reports on last year's remarkable autumn and for those of you who wish to check out the <·. .;, ·-·~ •.. . of ·--.. •,,,,... ••• ••-~•.. •.., braneh's finances, copies the accounts for the year to • 31 March 2006 are also included. There are also details of a pilot project to develop a method for monitoring butterflies in the general countryside away from nature reserves. Details of the branch's 2007
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