Brown
Argus
Aricia
agestis ([Denis & Schiffermüller],
1775)  |
| Status
.....J.W. Carr never listed Brown Argus
as having occurred in Nottinghamshire in his 1916 book, although
it had allegedly been recorded by Sterland at the
time. It was known from SK77 (near Kirton) and
SK73 (near Hickling) between 1940 and 1957,
although it has to be said that neither area
looks to have much in the way of suitable Brown
Argus habitat on first impression. Apparently
reappeared in the county after a gap of
approximately 40 years in 1997, when one was
recorded along the disused railway line near
Bingham (Birch, Dr, A.). The same year also saw
the Brown Argus recorded from Holme Pierrepont,
along a former colliery railway line at Gedling,
a disused railway line near Newark and along
another disused railway line at Cotham. |
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| Photographed
at Warsop Main Pit Top July 2018 |
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| Photographed
at Warsop Main Pit Top July 2003 |
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Early stages |
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Early instar larval feeding signs/windows, on Dovesfoot Cranesbill
Geranium molle. Photographed at Clipstone Old Quarter, October 6th
2023. |
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Early instar larva on Dovesfoot Cranesbill Geranium molle.
Photographed at Clipstone Old Quarter, October 6th 2023. |
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