On the trail of the purple emperor

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Charles Nicol
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On the trail of the purple emperor

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An excellent piece in today's Telegraph by Matthew Oates.
He visits the Knepp Estate in Sussex which is a Purple Emperor stronghold.

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does not look like a typical Iris ?
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:D I'd be very surprised if even Matthew Oates could find a southern white admiral in Sussex! Standards at the Torygraph are slipping ...

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Re: On the trail of the purple emperor

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Padfield wrote::D I'd be very surprised if even Matthew Oates could find a southern white admiral in Sussex! Standards at the Torygraph are slipping ...

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hehehe.... it is great that Butterflies are being promoted, even if they are not quite the right ones 8)
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