Adur Butterfly List 2004
Adur Butterfly List 2005
Adur Butterfly List 2006
Adur Butterfly List 2007
Adur Butterfly List 2008
Adur Butterfly List 2009
Adur Butterfly List 2010
Adur Butterfly List 2011
Adur Butterfly List 2012
Adur Butterfly List 2013

Adur Butterfly Blog 2012

 
 

	Small Tortoiseshell	Aglais urticae	Downs, gardens and Adur Levels
	Orange Tip	Anthocharis cardamines	Woods Mill Shermanbury, Henfield Lancing Manor Vetch Trail (Mill Hill) Adur Levels
	Ringlet	Aphantopus hyperantus	Slonk Hill south Shermanbury Adur Levels Mill Hill
	Dark Green Fritillary	Argynnis aglaja	Possible, but not recorded (reports received from Mill Hill up until 1988)  Mill Hill Known from Cissbury Ring
	Silver-washed Fritillary	Argynnis paphia	Tottington Wood
	Green-veined White	Artogeia napi	Woods Mill Adur Levels Mill Hill Lancing Ring
	Green Hairstreak	Callophrys rubi	Reported from Lancing Ring Mill Hill Pepperscombe (W. of Steyning)
	Holly Blue	Celastrina argiolus	Lancing, outskirts of the town centre, spring. Shoreham town. Lancing Clump Adur Levels
	Small Heath	Coenonympha pamphilus	Mill Hill and other Downs,  Halewick Lane, Lancing Lancing Clump 2004 Anchor Bottom Adur Levels (near Botoplphs)
	Clouded Yellow	Colias croceus	Immigrant, absent or rare most years but common everywhere except gardens in 2000. Slonk Hill 2002 Lancing Clump
	Small Blue	Cupido minimus	Slonk Hill north Mill Hill south of A27 Lancing Clump 2005
	Dingy Skipper	Erynnis tages	Mill Hill.  Upper Beeding.
	Brimstone	Gonepteryx rhamni	Urban areas throughout. Mill Hill. Downs. Shermanbury. Adur Levels
	Grayling	Hipparchia semele	Historic records only Extinct from Mill Hill since 1960  (scarce from 1947 to 1960)
	Peacock	Inachis io	Lancing Clump and Widewater. Lancing churchyards. Adur Levels Downs, Town centres and gardens.
	Wall Brown	Lasiommata megera	New Erringham Downs Adur Levels Shoreham town Lancing Clump Slonk Hill
	White Admiral	Limenitis camilla	South Furze Field (north of Edburton) Tottington Wood
	Small Copper	Lycaena phlaes	Southwick Hill Beeding Hill Adur Levels Lancing Clump and Town Mill Hill lower slopes
	Meadow Brown	Maniola jurtina	Common on the Downs and Adur Levels Town centres and gardens.  Malthouse Meadows at Sompting
	Marbled White	Melanargia galathea	Upper Downs, sometimes common.  Sometimes very common on McIntyres Field (near Lancing Clump) and occasionally on the Adur Levels
	Purple Hairstreak	Neozephyrus quercus	Edburton
	Large Skipper	Ochlodessylvanus (= O. faunus) (= O.venata)	Lancing Ring, Mill Hill and Adur Levels
	Speckled Wood	Pararge aegeria	Frequent at Lancing Clump. Occasionally at Mill Hill and other Downs scrub, and near Buckingham Park. Lancing churchyards.
	Large White	Pieris brassicae	Gardens, Downs, Beach and Adur Levels
	Small White	Pieris rapae	Gardens, Downs, Beach and Adur Levels
	Brown Argus	Plebeius agestis (=Aricia )	Slonk Hill south Mill Hill Lancing Ring Malthouse Meadows New Monks Farm
	Comma	Polygonia c-album	Lancing Clump and Lancing churchyards. Shoreham Town. Adur Levels Malthouse Meadows at Sompting Mill Hill
	Adonis Blue	Polyommatus bellargus	Southwick Hill Mill Hill Slonk Hill North Lancing Clump 2004
	Chalkhill Blue	Polyommatus coridon	Abundant on Mill Hill. Waterworks Road (Adur Levels) Occasional on Lancing Clump meadows
	Common Blue	Polyommatus icarus	Beach and Downs,  Adur Levels.
	Grizzled Skipper	Pyrgus malvae	Mill Hill Slonk Hill North.
	Gatekeeper	Pyronia tithonus	Adur Levels and scrub areas of the Downs. Town.  Widewater.
	White-letter Hairstreak	Strymonidia w-album	Reported from Benfield Valley, Portslade Recent history (in living memory) from Old Erringham (west) Report from Kingston Lane, Shoreham
	Brown Hairstreak	Thelca betulae	Between Shermanbury & Partridge Green Mill Hill Buckingham Cutting (south)
	Essex Skipper	Thymelicus lineola	Probably the Downs everywhere.  Adur Levels Mill Hill
	Small Skipper	Thymelicus sylvestris	Lancing Ring, Mill Hill, Southwick Hill, wasteland in towns, Adur Levels Shermanbury.
	Red Admiral	Vanessa atalanta	Parks & Gardens and Adur Levels. Lancing Ring. Mill Hill. Southwick Hill. Towns: Shoreham & Lancing Shoreham and Lancing Beach.
	Painted Lady	Vanessa cardui	Widewater Lagoon  Towpath on the Adur between Shoreham and Bramber  Towns: Shoreham & Lancing Lancing Ring Mossy Bottom and Mill Hill Malthouse Meadows at Sompting

Link:  Adur Butterflies Flight Times
Adur First Butterfly Dates 2003-2005
Adur Butterfly Sightings Database (from 17 July 2004)
Adur Biodiversity Network: Butterflies, Direct Entry Database

Mill Hill 2004 (with new map)

Local reference book:

Atlas of Sussex Butterflies
Butterfly Conservation, Henfield
ISBN 0.9522602.4.7

Flight Times

Millennium Atlas of the Butterflies of Britain and Ireland 

U.K. Lepidopterists Study Group

Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

flickr European Butterflies

Butterflies of Lancing
South Downs Butterflies

Butterfly Conservation Society
UK-Leps (Yahoo) eForum (Lepidoptera)
UK Butterflies Discussion Board
Adur Butterfly Image Portfolio (Smart Groups)
EuroLeps Yahoo Group (European Leps)
Euro Butterflies Species Index
UK Butterflies

UK Butterfly Sites

Butterfly Transect Method

ACFOR system of abundance
Ray Hamblett's Mill Hill & Beeding Hill Page
Immigration of Lepidoptera
Butterfly Bionomics Information (Really Wild Flowers)
Butterflies of Ireland (with pics)
Ceri's Butterfly Page (with pics)
Guy Padfield's European Butterfly Page (with pics)
Butterflies (Bioimages)
British Butterflies (Dave Walters)
Butterfly Guide
What is the Caterpillar web page
Protected Species of Butterflies & Moths
Butterflies of Cissbury Ring
Butterflies of Offwell, Devon
British Butterflies (Steve Cheshire)
Keith Edkins Lepidoptera Photographs
Life Histories of Butterflies and Moths Index

Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa 

UK Moths
UK Moths Thumbnail Index
Irish Moths: Foodplants

UK Moths Links page

What's Flying Tonight (Moths)
UK Moths Yahoo Group

Day Flying Moths
Cornish Moths Selection
Adur Moths

UK Butterfly Calendar
Cockayne Database (NHM)
British Butterflies Flight Times (Steve Cheshire)
Butterfly Flight Times (best site)
Butterfly Conservation: First Sightings
Earliest Sightings Summary

Enchanted Learning: Butterflies

Butterflies (Netherlands)

Glossary of Butterfly Terms

Frequency of Butterflies (Lower Adur Valley)

Insect Lore Butterfly Kits

UK Lepidoptera (Jeff Higgott)
Rare Butterfly Locations

Breeding UK-Leps · The U.K. Lepidopterists Study Group (Yahoo)

Adur Butterfly List (from 18 July 2003) supplement to Nature Notes
Adur Butterflies Slide Show (CD-ROM only)
Adur Butterfly List 2004
Adur Butterfly List 2005
Adur Butterfly List 2006
Adur Butterfly List 2007

Butterfly Book List
NHBS Lepidoptera Book List

Butterfly Conservation Society Recording Schemes

Victorian Collectors

Garden Safari Butterflies
Natural Break Butterflies

Butterfly Sites (UK) with map
More Butterfly web pages from EuroWeb Yahoo Group

Bretany (France) Leps

Food Plants of British Butterflies

Skipper ID Page
Adur Skippers Page

Chalk Downland Insects

Butterfly Vision

Mapmate

Comma on Hawthorn (28 July 2003)
 
 

Observations of the habitats of the Small Heath Butterfly Observations of the habitats of the Small Copper Butterfly Some Notes on the local Meadow Brown Butterfly populations Notes on the Wall Brown Butterfly Bird's Foot Trefoil & the Common Blue Butterfly Some other notes on resident butterflies and moths in the Adur area (Part One) Some other notes on resident butterflies and moths in the Adur area (Part Two) Chalkhill Blues notes from the downs near Shoreham Adonis Blues notes from the downs near Shoreham Skippers of the downs near Shoreham Observations of the other Butterflies of the Adur district area and a few absentees  Observations of some of the smaller Moths in the Adur district area

Common Blue Butterflies on chalk (link)
Blue Butterflies (Photographs 2001)
Blue Butterflies (Photographs 2000)
Blue Butterfly Flight Times
Blue Butterflies (Photographs 2002-3)

Blue Butterflies (Hertfordshire & Middlesex Branch of Butterfly Conservation)

 
"Paul M Hill" <paul@papilio.co.uk>
Subject: Moth Traps

Details of how to construct your own moth trap can be found on the Atropos
Web Page - http://www.atroposuk.co.uk

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Road Route (Map)
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Local Wildlife & Geological Links  (SE England)

Adur Biodiversity Insect Links
Adur Valley (Nature Notes)
British Marine Life Study Society
Bungalow Town
Butterflies of Cissbury Ring
Butterflies of Lancing
Chesil Beach
CMS 2000   Coastal Management for Sustainability
Coastal Flora List & Links
Cornwall (Geomorphology, Eclipse etc.)
Dungeness, Kent, England
Friends of the Earth SSSI Navigator
Geology of the Dorset Coast
National Trust: Orford Ness
Longshore Drift
Orford Ness:  Coastal Ecology of a Shingle Bank (excellent references)
Ralph Hollins Nature Pages  (Chichester Harbour area)
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Seashore Page (BMLSS)
Shingle Discussion Group
Shoreham (History of)
Sussex Downs Smart Group
Sussex Wildlife Trust
Trees (British) External site