Had a brilliant couple of hours today,at what I believe is one of the jewels of Kent nature reserves (along with Dungeness) ie;Lydden/Temple Ewell reserve,it was alive with butterflies today and harks back to long gone days ,on the downlands of hordes of blues every where you look! I didn,t count them but there were hundreds of Adonis.Chalkhill(in particular),Common blues,along with Meadow Browns,in surprisingly good nick,i managed to find about 12 Silver spotted Skips; and ten Clouded Yellow, ten!!
three times more than I,ve seen all season! even the single Small Copper we found was a blue spot, along with the obvious draw of the butterflies,its also home to Wartbiter cricket,and Britains largest cricket,the great green (sadly we didn't see either),we did find lots of Autumn Ladies Tresses (orchids) in fact you really had to look where you trod! Along with Autumn Gentian ,Eyebrights,Devils bit Scabious,plus loads I couldn't name,arriving back at the car we found 2 Holly blues in an Ivy,if you,re down this way give Lydden
a go ..you won't be sorry! Regards Allan.W.