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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

Any corrections are marked with a **

 

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 sylvanus 7th June Hamstreet
  Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages 22nd May Trosley Country Park
  Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae 22nd May Trosley Country Park
  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
  White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album 28th June Royal Miltary Canal, Appledore
  Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas 19th April Folkestone Warren
  Small Blue Cupido minimus 7th June Folkestone
  Brown Argus Plebeius agestis 25th May Wye
  Common Blue Polyommatus icarus 15th May Otford
  Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon 9th July Temple Ewell
  Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus 12th May Folkestone Warren
  Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 26th March Ashford
  Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina 1st May Denge
  White Admiral Limenitis 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 Most likely extinct (Kent)
  Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja 26th June

Trosley Country Park

  Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia 17th July Pembury
  Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia 4th June East Blean Woods
  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 Tonbridge
  Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina 9th June Folkestone
  Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus 7th May Kemsing Downs
  Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus 20th June White Hill Reserve

 
 
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