Butterfly-watching in Cornwall

27 February 2022
Trevose Head

Red Admiral

Small Tortoiseshell

22 March 2022
​Woodland Valley Farm, Ladock

Comma

Peacock

Small Tortoiseshell

3 April 2022
The Dodman, Gorran

Green-veined White and Wall

16 April 2022
Roseland Peninsula

Orange Tip

Red Admiral, Peacock and Holy Blue

18 April 2022
North Cornwall Coast

Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral

19 April 2022
​Crowhill Valley, Grampound

Green-veined White

Peacock, Red Admiral and Speckled Wood

20 April 2022
Woodland Valley Farm

Speckled Wood

Red Admiral, Orange Tip and Peacock

24 April 2022
Wheal Friendly, St Agnes

Red Admiral and Comma

25 April 2022
Portmellon Valley, St Austell

Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Green-veined White and Holy Blue

26 April 2022
Struddicks, Seaton

Small Copper, Orange Tip, Holy Blue, Peacock, Speckled Wood and Wall

26 April 2022: 15++ Pearl-bordered Fritillary
11 May 2019: 30++ Pearl-bordered Fritillary
18 May 2018: 20++ Pearl-bordered Fritillary
16 April 2017: 4x Pearl-bordered Fritillary
25 April 2016: 8x Pearl-bordered Fritillary
15 April 2015: 13x Pearl-bordered Fritillary
19 April 2014: 40++ Pearl-bordered Fritillary

30 April 2022
Perran Sands, Perranporth

Wall, Peacock and Speckled Wood

Grizzled Skipper

4 May 2022
Park Head, North Cornwall Coast

Pair of Small Coppers

Orange Tip, Peacock and Wall

5 May 2022
Trevaunance, St Agnes

Small Copper, Green-veined White, Holy Blue, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and Wall

7 May 2022
Wheal Maid, Poldice, St Day

Silver-studded Blue larva

Common Blue larva

Burnet Moth larva

8 May 2022
De Lank, St Breward

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

15 May 2022
Cerne Abbas, Dorchester, Dorset

Marsh Fritillary, Dingy Skipper and Grizzled Skipper

Duke of Burgundy

15 May 2022
Fontmell and Melbury Downs, Dorset

Small Blue

Adonis Blue

Glanville Fritillary

16 May 2022
Fellover Brake, Tuckingmill, St Breward

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

21 May 2022
Fellover Brake, Tuckingmill, St Breward

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Pearl-bordered Fritillary ab. pittionii
​(Nitsche.Verh.zoolbot.Ges.Wien.1926.74-75.p.17.) vittata Nordstrom.Ent.Tidskr.1933.54.p.175.pl.5.f.11.

Upperside of the forewings with a well-developed black band in the median area stretching from the costa to inner margin. The hindwings black from the base to the median line of spots. Nordstrom named the same form in subspecies septentrionalis.

Pearl-bordered Fritillary ab. albomaculata (Goodson.Entom.1959.92.p.148.)

​Albino. All black patterning replaced by pale silvery-grey on normal ground colour. It is similar in appearance to ab. albomaculata Goodson of adippe [Argynnis adippe, High Brown Fritillary], coloured figures of which can be seen in Frohawk’s Hist.Brit.Butts.pl.13.f.17.

22 May 2022
Kiberick Cove and Nare Head, Roseland Peninsula

Common Blue

Painted Lady, Small Copper and Wall

23 May 2022
Breney Common, Lanlivery

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

29 May 2022
Breney Common, Lanlivery

Small Copper, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary and Small Heath

Marsh Fritillary

30 May 2022​
Portmellon Valley, St Austell

Common Blue

Orange Tip, Large Skipper and Speckled Wood

31 May 2022
Tin Coast, West Cornwall

Common Blue

Small Heath, Painted Lady and Speckled Wood

3 June 2022
​Wheal Coates, St Agnes

Common Blue, Green Hairstreak, Large White, Small Copper, Painted Lady and Large Skipper

5 June 2022
The Dodman, Penare, St Austell

Large Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Green-veined White,
​Meadow Brown, Red Admiral and Speckled Wood

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