The rise & rise of the Brown Argus
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:06 pm
Every piece of reasonably large grassland habitat seems to have Brown Argus this year in extrememly good numbers. Totternhoe, Ivinghoe, Devils Dyke, Burwell, etc. Today not 400 metres from home I found 6 or 7 in a locality where I hadn't seen them during the previous 15 years I have lived here (South Cambridgeshire)
I first saw Small Heath in this locality two years ago. Today it must have been 20+ if not many more. I gave up counting.
The habitat is just perfect for Marbled White but I haven't yet seen them there. I understand they have recently colonised parts of Royston Heath a mere 10 kilometres away so here's hoping for this year. It will not surprise me one little bit if they turn up.
Locality TL424393
Jack
I first saw Small Heath in this locality two years ago. Today it must have been 20+ if not many more. I gave up counting.
The habitat is just perfect for Marbled White but I haven't yet seen them there. I understand they have recently colonised parts of Royston Heath a mere 10 kilometres away so here's hoping for this year. It will not surprise me one little bit if they turn up.
Locality TL424393
Jack