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Butterfly First Sightings In Kent For 2004  

Last updated on 6th August 2004

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 14th June Langdon Cliffs, Dover
  Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola 2nd July Maidstone
  Silver-spotted Skipper Hesperia comma    
  Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus 10th June Langdon Cliffs, Dover
  Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages 27th April Alkham
  Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae 24th April Trosley Country Park
  Clouded Yellow Colias croceus    
  Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni 1st February Downe Bank
  Large White Pieris brassicae 13th April Bearsted
  Small White Pieris rapae 16th April Deal
 

Green-veined White

 Pieris napi 16th April Rooks Hill nr Ightham
  Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines 9th April Kiln Wood, Bough Beech
  Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi 24th April Trosley Country Park
  Purple Hairstreak Neozephyrus quercus    
  White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album    
  Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas 27th April Dover
  Small Blue Cupido minimus 16th May Kingsdown
  Brown Argus Plebeius agestis 18th May Lydden
  Common Blue Polyommatus icarus 18th May Lydden
  Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon    
  Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus 30th May Folkestone
  Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 12th April Haysden Country Park, Tonbridge
  Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina 16th May Denge
  White Admiral Limenitis camilla 19th June Burnt Oak Wood
 

Purple Emperor

Apatura iris 29th June Ide Hill
  Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta 3rd January Kingston
  Painted Lady Cynthia cardui 4th February Snodland
  Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae 25th January Dungeness
  Peacock Inachis io 24th January Maidstone
  Comma Polygonia c-album

17th March

Ditton
  Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne N/A Most likely extinct (Kent)
  Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja 26th June

Trosley Country Park

  Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia    
  Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia 4th June East Blean Woods
  Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria 22nd April Dover
  Wall Brown Lasiommata megera 7th May Dover
  Marbled White Melanargia galathea 14th June Langdon Cliffs, Dover
  Grayling Hipparchia semele    
  Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus    
  Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina 8th June Lydden
  Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus 14th May Trosley Country Park
  Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus 13th June White Hill Reserve

Possible Monarch Sighting

Monarch Butterfly. Photo © Robert Thompson
Monarch. Photo © Robert Thompson

We have received a report of a possible Monarch being seen in Kent. This butterfly is a rare migrant to the UK.

Pale Clouded Yellow Sighting

John Websper saw a Pale Clouded Yellow in Lydden on 8th June 2004. This butterfly is a rare migrant to the UK.
 
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