Peacock Aglais io (Linnaeus,
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Formerly known as Inachis io  |
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.....The Peacock continues
to be one of our most regularly recorded butterflies.
Found in all habitat types and over the whole of
Nottinghamshire, it has a generally stable population,
though prone to occasional years (or periods) of
abundance, when it can be the commonest species at garden
Buddleias. Opposingly, it can have years when it is
sometimes slightly harder to find. It often suffers
considerably from parasitism whilst in the larval stage,
but greater damage is probably done to local Peacock
populations through cutting roadside grass verges too
regularly and our continued obsession with 'tidying' up
our country parks and urban green spaces. |
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| Photographed at Netherfield
Lagoons July 2020 |
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| Photographed
at Eakring Flash July 2003 |
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Early stages |
| Full
grown larvae on Nettle Urtica dioica. Photographed at King's Clipstone June 2020 |
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