White-letter
Hairstreak Satyrium w-album (Knoch, 1782)  |
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.....The number of modern White-letter Hairstreak
records, have showed considerable annual variation. Like most other
butterflies, it has had a succession of peaks and troughs since the
mid-1990's, but is perhaps better recorded now than it has ever been. It is widespread, but rather thinly
scattered across Nottinghamshire, but there are large
areas of the county producing no recent records. In north
Nottinghamshire, it is well recorded from the
Ranskill/Barnby Moor and Dyscarr Wood areas. Further
south, there are numerous records from Duke's Wood, the
Calverton/Lambley area and from Colwick CP and Cotgrave
Forest. It appears to be absent from much of the
Mansfield area and north of the Trent Valley at
Sutton-on-Trent, to areas north and east of Retford,
including the Idle Valley up as far as Misson. |
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| Adult reared
ex-Wellow Park larva, photographed June 2015 |
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| Photographed
at Lound Wood July 2006 |
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Early stages |
| Ovae/eggs on Wych Elm Ulmus glabra.
Photographed at Wellow Park December 2021. |
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Half
grown larva on Wych Elm Ulmus glabra. Photographed at Wellow Park May 2015.
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| Full grown larvae on Wych
Elm Ulmus glabra. Photographed at Wellow Park May 2015. |
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