Grizzled
Skipper Pyrgus
malvae (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Status
.....Another butterfly which
has increased in the county in recent years, largely
through the efforts of volunteers carrying out scrub
thinning work along disused railway lines in the south
and south-east of Nottinghamshire. The main areas of
occurrence are along disused railway lines running from
East Leake north to Rushcliffe; along the Bingham Linear
Walk from mid-way between Langar and Plungar north-west
to Bingham and Saxondale and from Staunton northwards
past Cotham towards Newark. |
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Photographed at Saxondale,
June 2021 |
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Photographed
at Langar, May 2015 |
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Early stages |
Egg laid on Creeping Cinquefoil Potentilla reptans, Cotham Railway Station May 25th 2022 |
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3rd instar larva. Photographed June 2022. |
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