Hi Ernie
Try Selsley Common for DoB - reportedly very good numbers there at the moment.
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Mark

What a superb looking butterfly - great find!
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Mark

Another from Suffolk https://twitter.com/gbchownster/status ... 63809?s=12

Suffolk I think https://twitter.com/jane__ferguson/sta ... kbmWykeIiA

A brilliant presentation about the Large Blue lifecycle, and the research that enabled it, from Professor Jeremy Thomas himself here https://youtu.be/xDclp8C1t5E

Another one at Ringmer yesterday http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/

Another one in Sussex http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/

Three adults and a larval web reported from Peacehaven on Sussex BC
http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/
Kind regards
Mark

Hi Ernie - I’ll miss bumping into you at Alice Holt during Emperor season and our strolls down the rides, but you are moving to a great location. My wife is from Nailsworth right on the edge of Minchinhampton common so I know the area pretty well. As others have said Large Blues at a few locations, ...

Probably my favourite emperor photo was actually of a pupa. I spent several evenings in June wandering around the woods with a uv light looking for these and using Flossie, my spaniel, as cover for a weird bloke being in the forest at ungodly hours with a strange blue light! In all I managed to find...

Until recently Brown Hairstreak has had a pretty restricted distribution in Hampshire, confined to two small areas in the extreme West and East of the county. In the past three or four years this species seems to have broken out of its eastern stronghold around Noar Hill with a number of sightings a...

I will be there too - all being well
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Mark

Lovely to have you back Guy, and great to see Minnie back in her natural habitat!
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Mark

Hi Pauline,
I think the little reserve you are referring to is Brook Meadow - well looked after and based around the River Ems a little chalk stream. See https://www.brookmeadow.org.uk/

I for one would like to thank David for giving such a comprehensive reply and for the efforts of the Large Blue Butterfly Conservation committee in getting this butterfly established back in the UK. It is my understanding that it was mostly human influences that tipped the Large Blue over the precip...

Yes from me - I missed last year

I would agree with Bugboy - looks like a rejection pose.
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Mark

Yes Pauline - I watched a Robber Fly take a Large Blue in mid flight at Daneway Banks a few years ago!

Hi Pauline Those are indeed Robber Flies. I am pretty sure the first two are Hornet Robber Flies and the pair are Kite Tailed Robber Flies from what I can see but happy to be corrected! They seem to be having a good year as I have seen quite a few too including one in the garden waiting on a buddlei...

I have bumped into a number of UKB’ers on my travels and especially in Emperor season and they will also have encountered Flossie the ‘Emperor dog’ She is my constant companion at this time of the year and can’t wait to get into the woods to see what we can find. She is very aware of the protocols n...