BUTTERFLIES BEE AT WATCHING HENSTEAD 1997–2002
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Some Suffolk Butterflies around Framlingham: 15 July to 4 August 2007 Our observations in 2007 were on the following dates: Species
Dates
Small Skipper Large Skipper Large White Small White Green Veined White Small Copper Brown Argus Common Blue Holly Blue Red Admiral Painted Lady Small Tortoiseshell Peacock Comma Speckled Wood Grayling Gatekeeper Meadow Brown Ringlet
Every day except 29 July, 2 August 18, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 July Every day except 19, 20 July, 2–5 August Every day except 2–4 August Every day except 28, 29 July Strongly present from 24 July to 4 August Strongly present from 18 July to 4 August Regularly emerged from 18 July to 4 August 27, 29, July, 3 August Every day in July, 3, 15 August 19, 27 July only 15–21 July – four only 15, 17, 19 July and then, till 4 August 15 July to 4 August – 17 specimens 15–31 July – seven specimens 19 July – solo 1–29 July, 1 August 15 July to 4 August From 15 July seen on eight days and once in August
Alasdair Aston Wakes Cottage Selborne Hampshire GU34 3JH
Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc. 44 (2008)