| Butterfly First Sightings in Kent for 2005 |
Last updated on 13th August 2005
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
To see all the records submitted on-line for 2005, please click here.
| Species Name | Latin Name | First sighting | Location |
| Small Skipper | Thymelicus sylvestris | 24th June | Hamstreet |
| Essex Skipper | Thymelicus lineola | 28th June | Appledore |
| Silver-spotted Skipper | Hesperia comma | 2nd August | Lydden |
| Large Skipper | Ochlodes venata | 7th June | Hamstreet |
| Dingy Skipper | Erynnis tages | 22nd April | Trosley Downs |
| Grizzled Skipper | Pyrgus malvae | 22nd April | Trosley Downs |
| Clouded Yellow | Colias croceus | 10th June | Hamstreet |
| Brimstone | Gonepteryx rhamni | 18th March | New Hythe |
| Large White | Pieris brassicae | 17th April | Maidstone |
| Small White | Pieris rapae | 2nd April | Shooters Hill |
| Green-veined White | Pieris napi | 16th April | Maidstone |
| Orange Tip | Anthocharis cardamines | 3rd April | New Hythe |
| Green Hairstreak | Callophrys rubi | 19th April | Folkestone Warren |
| Purple Hairstreak | Neozephyrus quercus | 25th June | East Blean Woods - Canterbury |
| White-letter Hairstreak | Satyrium w-album | 28th June | Royal Military Canal - Appledore |
| Small Copper | Lycaena phlaeas | 19th April | Folkestone Warren |
| Small Blue | Cupido minimus | 7th June | Folkestone |
| Brown Argus | Aricia agestis | 25th May | Wye |
| Common Blue | Polyommatus icarus | 15th May | Otford |
| Chalkhill Blue | Lysandra coridon | 9th July | Temple Ewell |
| Adonis Blue | Lysandra bellargus | 12th May | Folkestone Warren |
| Holly Blue | Celastrina argiolus | 26th March | Ashford |
| Duke of Burgundy | Hamearis lucina | 1st May | Bonsia Bank |
| White Admiral | Ladoga camilla | 20th June | Bishopstone Glen nr Reculver |
| Purple Emperor | Apatura iris | 15th July | Markbeech |
| Red Admiral | Vanessa atalanta | 1st January | Tonbridge |
| Painted Lady | Cynthia cardui | 1st May | Detling nr Maidstone |
| Small Tortoiseshell | Aglais urticae | 16th March | Tonbridge |
| Peacock | Inachis io | 17th March | Maidstone |
| Comma | Polygonia c-album | 17th March | Ramsgate |
| Pearl-bordered Fritillary | Boloria euphrosyne | N/A | Sadly most likely extinct in Kent |
| Dark Green Fritillary | Argynnis aglaja | 26th June | Trosley Country Park |
| Silver-washed Fritillary | Argynnis paphia | 17th July | Pembury |
| Heath Fritillary | Mellicta athalia | 4th June | East Blean Woods - Canterbury |
| Speckled Wood | Pararge aegeria | 2nd April | Rochester |
| Wall Brown | Lasiommata megera | 19th April | Dover Area |
| Marbled White | Melanargia galathea | 20th June | Folkestone Warren |
| Grayling | Hipparchia semele | 10th August | Grain |
| Gatekeeper | Pyronia tithonus | 26th June | Haysden Country Park - Tonbridge |
| Meadow Brown | Maniola jurtina | 9th June | Folkestone |
| Small Heath | Coenonympha pamphilus | 7th May | Kemsing Downs |
| Ringlet | Aphantopus hyperantus | 20th June | White Hill Reserve - Shoreham |