Butterfly Conservation Logo

Butterfly Conservation Kent Branch

saving butterflies, moths and their habitats

  
Clock & Date
 
Bookmark
 
 
Menu A
Menu B
Menu C
 


Butterfly First Sightings In Kent For 2003  

Last updated on 7th August 2003

Please email any sightings to Mike Easterbrook - Kent Branch Butterfly Recorder or use our online recording system, by clicking here.

When making your report please try to include a map reference and also the number of specimens seen

Any corrections are marked with a **

 

Species Name

Latin Name First Sighting Location
  Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris 20th June Kingston & Sturry
  Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola 24th June Sturry
  Silver-spotted Skipper Hesperia comma 4th August Lydden Down
  Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus 16th June Trosley Country Park
  Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages 13th April Trosley Country Park
  Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae 4th April Trosley Country Park
  Clouded Yellow Colias croceus 14th July Otford
  Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni 30th January Longfield
  Large White Pieris brassicae 27th April Margate
  Small White Pieris rapae 15th March Sandhurst
 

Green-veined White

 Pieris napi 30th March Bromley & Tonbridge
  Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines 28th March Kingston
  Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi 29th April Sturry
  Purple Hairstreak Neozephyrus quercus 21st June East Blean Woods
  White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album    
  Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas 20th April Dungeness
  Small Blue Cupido minimus 31st May Western Heights, Dover
  Brown Argus Plebeius agestis 4th May Trosley Country Park
  Common Blue Polyommatus icarus 23rd April Trosley Country Park
  Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon 21st July Wrotham
  Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus 31st May St. Margaret's Bay
  Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 5th April Haysden Country Park, Tonbridge & Barnehurst
  Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina 4th June Denge
  White Admiral Limenitis camilla 21st June East Blean Woods
 

Purple Emperor

Apatura iris 6th July Markbeech
  Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta 27th January Ruckinge
  Painted Lady Cynthia cardui 25th March Tonbridge
  Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae 27th January Romney Marsh
  Peacock Inachis io 27th January Sandwich
  Comma Polygonia c-album

27th January

Tonbridge
  Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne N/A Most likely extinct (Kent)
  Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja 12th June

Trosley Country Park

  Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia 13th July Trosley Country Park
  Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia 13th June East Blean Woods
  Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria 4th April Southborough & Trosley Country Park
  Wall Brown Lasiommata megera 4th May Chattenden Woods, Hoo
  Marbled White Melanargia galathea 16th June Maidstone
  Grayling Hipparchia semele 23rd July Folkestone Warren
  Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus    
  Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina 12th June Trosley Country Park
  Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus 23rd April Trosley Country Park
  Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus 21st June Trosley Country Park

Camberwell Beauty Sighitngs

16th March 2003

Mr Peter Gay has reported a Camberwell Beauty in his garden on Sunday March 16, which was a warm, sunny day.

It didn't settle but he said it was circling just above head height and he could clearly see the cream borders on it. He noted that there had been light easterly breezes on that day and on the two preceding days.

26th March 2003

A second Camberwell Beauty sighting has been reported. It was seen near Barming Woods on Wednesday 26th March.

 
 
Menu Bottom
   
  General Copyright

Content © 2002-2010 Butterfly Conservation - Kent Branch.

Butterfly Conservation
Company limited by guarantee, registered in England (2206468)
Registered Office: Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5QP
Charity registered in England & Wales (254937) and in Scotland (SCO39268)

Website design & layout © 2002-2010 Ben Kirby