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.....For many years,
Kirkby-in-Ashfield's Portland Park held
Nottinghamshire's only known Marbled White
colony. But in recent years, this delightful
butterfly has increased its local range and has
also been successfully introduced at a number of
other sites. It favours dry, grassy sites with a profusion of
nectar-bearing flowers, including former colliery spoil heaps, along
disused railway lines and embankments etc. Most of the county's
successful introductions/colonies, are situated on the strip of
Magnesium Limestone running up the western side of Nottinghamshire, near
to its border with neighbouring Derbyshire. |
