| Status
.....Following a
dramatic expansion of its UK range, the Essex
Skipper was recorded as being new to
Nottinghamshire in 1995, when found at Colwick
Country Park (Dennis, M.). In 1996, it
was recorded across the River Trent from Colwick at Holme
Pierrepont, before a more widespread set of Essex Skipper
records came from new sites at Bingham, Carlton and
Granby, in addition to further records from both Colwick
Country Park at Holme Pierrepont. The butterfly's range expansion
into Nottinghamshire from the south-east continued and by
1998, it had reached as far north as Girton, Langford
Lowfields and Spalford Warren north of Newark. Such an
expansion of range is hardly likely to have occurred
within a single year and it is probable that it had been
previously overlooked by recorders. |
