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| Adonis Blue, Polyommatus bellargus |
Yesterday I did my Mill Hill transect on a warm but cloud covered morning, which accounted for the low numbers of everything except Walls. It was wonderful to see the brilliant colour of second brood Adonis Blues. Later the sun shone through and the butterflies rose up in numbers. Results: Adonis Blue 3, Chalkhill Blue 13, Common Blue, Essex Skipper, Gatekeeper 6, Meadow Brown 20, Peacock, Red Admiral, Small Heath, Small White, Wall Brown 8. Afterwards I stopped at Beeding cement works where there were plenty of Common Blues, Brown Argus and a Holly Blue. Finally I visited Steyning Downland Scheme and thought I saw a Brown Hairstreak heading over the prunus towards the canopy. There were plenty of Walls and Holly Blues on the brambles at the top of the hill.
Mill Hill:
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| Adonis Blue |
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| Adonis Blue ♀ |
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| Adonis Blues mating |
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| Chalkhill Blue, Lysandra coridon |
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| Chalkhill Blue on Carline Thistle, Carlina vulgaris |
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| Cinnabar larva, Tyria jacobaeae |
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| Common Blue ♂, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Common Carpet, Epirrhoe alternata |
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| Common Green Lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea |
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| Common Knapweed, Centaurea nigra |
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| Common Purple and Gold, Pyrausta purpuralis |
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| Dark Bush Cricket ♂, Pholidoptera griseoaptera |
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| Deadly Nightshade, Atropa belladonna |
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| Essex Skipper, Thymelicus lineola |
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| Eyebright, Euphrasia species |
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| Lesser Treble-bar, Aplocera efformata |
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| tiny Mirid Bug nymph, Heterotoma planicornis |
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| Ploughman's-spikenard, Inula conyzae |
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| Prickly Sowthistle, Sonchus asper |
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| Scorpion fly ♀, Panorpa species |
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| Six-Spot Burnet, Zygaena filipendulae |
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| Straw-barred Pearl, Pyrausta despicata |
Some of the second brood P. despicata are tiny and there are several pattern forms among them.
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| Straw-barred Pearl |
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| Wall ♀, Lasiommata megera |
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| Yellow-spot Twist, Pseudargyrotoza conwagana |
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| Hawkweed Ox-tongue, Picris hieracioides |
Beeding cement works:
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| Bird's-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus |
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| Common Blue ♀, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Common Blue ♀ |
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| Common Blue ♂ |
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| Common Blue ♂ |
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| Holly Blue ♀, Celastrina argiolus |
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| Holly Blue ♀ |
Steyning Downland Scheme:
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| Alder Spittlebug, Aphrophora alni |
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| Common Sweep pupal case, Psyche casta |
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| Dark Bush Cricket ♀, Pholidoptera griseoaptera |
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| Fire bug, Corizus hyoscyami |
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| Fire bug |
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| Gatekeepers, Pyronia tithonus |
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| Holly Blues, Celastrina argiolus |
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| Orange Ladybird, Halyzia sedecimguttata |
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| Silver-washed Fritillary ♂, Argynnis paphia |
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| Straw Dot, Rivula sericealis |
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