We are all saying that this month's lovely summer is helping the numbers of many butterfly species to recover fron the previous 2 bad summers but is that in fact the case ? For many species for example White Admiral , Silver Washed Frit. , Dark Green Frit. which seem to be much more plentiful this y...

Good sighting of 3 Clouded Yellows yesterday 13th July at Ouse Estuary NR Newhaven , 2 males 1 uncertain .
The Upper Thames site mentions a record of Marbled Fritillary in Finemere Wood Bucks . This appears to be the 2nd year running for this species in this location .

My lunchtime transects of the Ouse Estuary Nature Reserve Newhaven yesterday and today proved more productive than I expected given the overcast with a few sunny spells weather . Species seen both days Large/Small White , Meadow Brown , Gatekeeper , Marbled White , Small Skipper , Speckled Wood , Sm...

Visited this Nature Reserve yesterday for the first time . It is on the outskirts of Burgess Hill West Sussex at the whimsically named World's End within 5 minutes walk from Wivelsfield Station . This is a large reserve with a mixture of flower rich meadows and pieces of ancient woodland with a larg...

This is a recently established (2005 ) nature reserve stretching along the Seaford road from Newhaven Denton Corner . If you look at the site on Google Maps all you will see is a desert of white brick/landfill and other bare ground which is how the reserve looked 2 years ago . Nature is doing it's w...

Many thanks Padfield for a well considered reply . I think it is also important to distinguish between species which are basically sedentary and may live in very scattered colonies separated from possible sites for them and species that are to some extent migratory or species which which may expand ...

Thanks for the responses , Shirley made the same point that I made , why is it acceptable to buy and introduce food plants into a new area but not butterflies . They are both "interfering with nature" . My view remains that in today's much fragmented countryside where natural colonisation ...

There appears to have been a further small influx of Painted Ladies here in Sussex last night . Around 15-20 seen this morning in a small area near my factory .

Greetings to all on here , my first post so may as well make a controversial one . Many on this thread have argued that it is wrong to release captive bred specimens of species into new or existing areas . I would argue that it is not only not wrong to do so but that in the 21st century where suitab...