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Dark Green Fritillary, Argynnis aglaja |
On Wednesday morning I visited Fairmile Bottom and met Neil Hulme who was also in pursuit of Dark Green Fritillaries. We saw many in flight and Neil was able to offer me a view of one roosting. Also seen were a Painted Lady, Meadow Browns, late emerging Grizzled Skippers, Marbled Whites, Common Blues and Large Skippers. Moths seen: Burnished Brass, Cinerous Pearl, Cinnabar, Common Plume, Dingy White Plume (Merrifieldia baliodactylus) - a Sussex rarity, Grey Gorse Piercer, many Hook-streak Grass-veneers, Meadow Grey, Red Piercer, Satin Grass-veneer, Yellow Shell.
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Burnished Brass, Diachrysia chrysitis |
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Cinerous Pearl, Anania fuscalis |
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Cinnabar, Tyria jacobaeae |
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Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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Common Milkwort, Polygala vulgaris |
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Common Plume, Emmelina monodactyla |
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Common Spotted-orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii |
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Dactylorhiza fuchsii x praetermissa (Dactylorhiza x grandis) |
a cross between Common Spotted Orchid and Southern Marsh Orchid, common where these two species coexist
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Dark Green Fritillary, Argynnis aglaja |
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Dark Green Fritillary |
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Dark Green Fritillary |
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Dusky Cockroach, Ectobius lapponicus |
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Five-spot Burnet, Zygaena trifolii |
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Common Mouse-Ear, Cerastium fontanum |
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Garden Chafer, Phyllopertha horticola |
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Grey Gorse Piercer, Cydia ulicetana |
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Grizzled Skipper, Pyrgus malvae |
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Grizzled Skipper |
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Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Crambus lathoniellus |
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Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus |
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Marbled White, Melanargia galathea |
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Marbled White take-off |
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Marbled White |
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Marbled White |
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Meadow Grey, Scoparia pyralella |
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Mirid bug, Calocoris roseomaculatus |
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Red Piercer, Lathronympha strigana |
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Satin Grass-veneer, Crambus perlella |
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Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata |