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It is doubtful that
this species ever occurred naturally in Nottinghamshire, but no doubt there have been
several attempts at introducing this butterfly by the release of
captive-bred stock. It is currently doing very well after just such an
attempt at Pleasley Pit Top a few years ago. J.W. Carr quotes from
William Howitt's 'Book of the Seasons' in which Howitt
claimed it 'was infrequent in Nottinghamshire', yet Carr
himself, in his 1916 book 'The
Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire' states that 'no entomologist has noticed it in the
county'. |
