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| Brown Argus, Aricia agestis |
I visited Kithurst meadow yesterday afternoon and enjoyed the spectacle of many flowers and grasses up to waist height. I saw 17 butterfly species: Brimstone, Brown Argus, Chalk Hill Blue (2), Comma, Gatekeeper, Green-veined White, Large White, Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Small White, Painted Lady, Peacock, Red Admiral, Ringlet, Silver-washed Fritillary, Small Heath, Small Skipper. Moths: Common Plume (Emmelina monodactyla), Silver Y, Six-spot Burnet. At one point 12 Whites were tumbling in the air together, including a Marbled White. Silver-washed Fritillaries flashed by and included a mating pair.
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| 14-spot Ladybird, Propylea 14-punctata |
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| Brown Argus, Aricia agestis |
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| Chalk Hill Blue, Polyommatus coridon |
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| Comma, Polygonia c-album |
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| Common Plume, Emmelina monodactyla |
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| unidentified larva on a bramble leaf |
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| tumbling Whites |
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| False Oil Beetle, Oedemera nobilis |
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| Gatekeeper, Pyronia tithonus |
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| Green-veined White, Pieris napi |
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| Large White, Pieris brassicae |
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| Nettle-leaved Bellflower, Campanula trachelium |
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| Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Peacock, Inachis io |
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| Peacock |
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| Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta |
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| Red Soldier beetles mating, Rhagonycha fulva |
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| Silver Y, Autographa gamma |
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| Six-spot Burnet, Zygaena filipendulae |
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| Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus |
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| Small Skipper, Thymelicus sylvestris |
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| Small White, Pieris rapae |
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