| Butterfly First Sightings in Kent for 2006 |
Last updated on 26th July 2006
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
| Species Name | Latin Name | First sighting | Location |
| Small Skipper | Thymelicus sylvestris | 17th June | Hothfield Common |
| Essex Skipper | Thymelicus lineola | 28th June | Temple Ewell |
| Silver-spotted Skipper | Hesperia comma | 25th July | Lydden |
| Large Skipper | Ochlodes venata | 10th June | Hamstreet |
| Dingy Skipper | Erynnis tages | 2nd May | Trosley Country Park |
| Grizzled Skipper | Pyrgus malvae | 2nd May | Trosley Country Park |
| Clouded Yellow | Colias croceus | 10th May | Hadlow |
| Brimstone | Gonepteryx rhamni | 23rd March | Kingston |
| Large White | Pieris brassicae | 22nd April | Tunbridge Wells |
| Small White | Pieris rapae | 8th April | Maidstone |
| Green-veined White | Pieris napi | 21st April | Yalding |
| Orange Tip | Anthocharis cardamines | 17th April | Badgers Mount |
| Green Hairstreak | Callophrys rubi | 4th May | Folkestone Warren |
| Purple Hairstreak | Neozephyrus quercus | 29th June | Broad Oak Wood |
| White-letter Hairstreak | Satyrium w-album | 24th June | Royal Military Canal - Warehorne |
| Small Copper | Lycaena phlaeas | 22nd April | Dartford Heath |
| Small Blue | Cupido minimus | 23rd May | Folkestone |
| Brown Argus | Aricia agestis | 28th May | Winchcombe |
| Common Blue | Polyommatus icarus | 11th May | Folkestone Warren |
| Chalkhill Blue | Lysandra coridon | 23rd July | Maidstone |
| Adonis Blue | Lysandra bellargus | 12th May | Dover |
| Holly Blue | Celastrina argiolus | 26th April | Chislehurst |
| Duke of Burgundy | Hamearis lucina | 11th May | Bonsia Bank |
| White Admiral | Ladoga camilla | 24th June | Hamstreet & East Blean Woods |
| Purple Emperor | Apatura iris | 8th July | Orlestone Forest |
| Red Admiral | Vanessa atalanta | 18th January | Kingston |
| Painted Lady | Cynthia cardui | 7th May | Kemsing Down (BC Kent Field Trip ) & Tonbridge |
| Small Tortoiseshell | Aglais urticae | 23rd March | New Romney |
| Peacock | Inachis io | 26th March | Kingston |
| Comma | Polygonia c-album | 13th March | Maidstone |
| Pearl-bordered Fritillary | Boloria euphrosyne | N/A | Sadly most likely extinct in Kent |
| Dark Green Fritillary | Argynnis aglaja | 11th July | Lullingstone |
| Silver-washed Fritillary | Argynnis paphia | 15th July | Hamstreet Woods |
| Heath Fritillary | Mellicta athalia | 4th June | East Blean Woods - Canterbury |
| Speckled Wood | Pararge aegeria | 18th April | Canterbury |
| Wall Brown | Lasiommata megera | 11th May | Folkestone Warren |
| Marbled White | Melanargia galathea | 24th June | West Kent Golf Course (BC Kent Field Trip ) |
| Grayling | Hipparchia semele | 17th July | Folkestone |
| Gatekeeper | Pyronia tithonus | 1st July | New Romney |
| Meadow Brown | Maniola jurtina | 8th June | Dover |
| Small Heath | Coenonympha pamphilus | 11th May | Folkestone Warren |
| Ringlet | Aphantopus hyperantus | 16th June | Kemsing Downs |