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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

Any corrections are marked with a **

 

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 sylvanus 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 Miltary Canal, Warehorne
  Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas 22nd April Dartford Heath
  Small Blue Cupido minimus 23rd May Folkestone
  Brown Argus Plebeius agestis 28th May Winchcombe
  Common Blue Polyommatus icarus 11th May Folkestone Warren
  Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon 23rd July Maidstone
  Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus 12th May Dover
  Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 26th April Chislehurst
  Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina 11th May Denge
  White Admiral Limenitis 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 Downs & 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 Most likely extinct (Kent)
  Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja 11th July

Lullingstone

  Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia 15th July Hamstreet Woods
  Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia 4th June East Blean Woods
  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
  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

 
 
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