Small
Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
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.....The Small Tortoiseshell remains very much a common Nottinghamshire
butterfly, despite all the negative
publicity issued by the relevant authorities a
few years ago. In Nottinghamshire, there has been
a decline but this may have been over-emphasised by this butterfly having a number of very good years in
the latter part of the 1990's. The decline started after
a bumper year in 1997 and numbers
ultimately reached a low between 2006 and 2008. But we
found almost identical low points in the populations of most
other Nottinghamshire species and feel the
dominant cause was more likely to have been climatic,
rather than parasitic. Since 2008 however, there
has been something of a recovery. This proved to be
extremely similar to the recovery showed by the Peacock
after 2009, with comparitively poor years in 2012
affecting both species. |
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| Photographed
at Warsop Main Pit Top August 2013 |
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at Eakring Flash July 2007 |
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Early stages |
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Early instar larvae and larval web on Nettle Urtica dioica. Photographed
at Clipstone Old Quarter May 2019. |
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Full grown larva on Nettle Urtica dioica. Photographed at
Clipstone Old Quarter May 2014. |
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