The Suffolk Argus
Letter to the Editor The Silver-studded Blue in Suffolk I read with avid interest the Summer 2008 Special Edition of the Suffolk Argus reporting on the attempted reestablishment for the Silver-studded Blue at Blaxhall Common. A great deal of work has been put into this translocation with the involvement of over 30 people. Perhaps the assumed clandestine release of 1997 is open to question as small numbers were recorded in 1996.
expected growth of population of Silverstudded Blue relocations in Suffolk. The Blaxhall Common release is a good move but it would have been good for the Suffolk Branch for it to have been shown as a continuation of the work of the Suffolk Branch of Butterfly Conservation rather than a one off.
When I skimmed the report and saw the wide distribution list I thought this would ‘bang the drum’ for the Suffolk Branch and highlight its Silver-studded Blue work, but here I was disappointed.
James Mann Saint Jean Pla De Corts FRANCE 6 January 2009
The Suffolk Action Plan for Butterflies compiled by the Suffolk Branch of Butterfly Conservation specifically notes Blaxhall under Silver-studded Blue, but this failed to get a mention. The Suffolk Argus. Volume 18 November 1999. Silver-studded Blues in Suffolk. Past, Present and Future again features Blaxhall as a likely site for re-introduction, but this again is not mentioned. This article also mentions the re-introduction at Aldringham Walks of 1998. The Suffolk Argus. Volume 20 June 2000 reports on the reinforcement of the reintroduction at Aldringham Walks. The numbers sighted from the 1998 release are not dissimilar from those sighted at Blaxhall in 2008. I believe that the Aldringham Walks release should have been mentioned and the numbers recorded since 1999 used with the future Blaxhall numbers to begin a pattern for the
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