Well... I've been out looking for WLH eggs this afternoon in Swaledale, all the usual haunts examined, but not a single egg identified.
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
... also Purple Hairstreaks just about as absent
![Crying or Very sad :cry:](./images/smilies/icon_cry.gif)
it was such an awful year last year, I wonder whether populations have been really knocked back. last year they were really on almost every suitable elm/ oak! Has anyone else been looking, I'd be interested to know their findings.
Also, I know Holly Blues are subject to cyclical parasite destruction, wonder if this could be true of other Lycaenids??
![Image](http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/ptkip/Sw-album075001.jpg)