A single tiny white egg nestling in the brown plump oak buds. The background is deliberately blurred
I was inspired by your post and others to go out looking this morning on the site where our local #butterflytransect is here in North Shropshire.
It didn’t take too long to find one but getting a half-decent photo took longer.
Photo of the double-page article which had pictures of the transect site, an Essex Skipper butterfly and statistics for butterflies recorded throughout the years of the survey
I was thrilled to see my article about our #butterflytransect published in the winter edition of the Comma magazine. Thank you to @bc-westmids.bsky.social and here's hoping for a better butterfly year in 2025
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If anyone would like to be added to this started list please let me know.
I have also created a feed called UK Butterfly Transects which is searchable via your Feeds tab
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Chart for Gatekeeper, number of records on the vertical axis and the segment numbers on the x axis. A different coloured line for each year. This description applies to the other three charts as well. All years are very similar in their numbers for each section. Sections 1 and 7 are clearly the best ones for this species
Chart for Ringlet The years 2022 and 2024 are similar to each other and higher than the other records for the other two years. This is most obvious in section 7. The other feature is that Ringlet were recorded in every section (except section 6) and I this did not happen in the other three years. It will be interesting to see whether this occurs in 2025.
Chart for Speckled Wood All years are very similar in their numbers for each section. Sections 1, 4 and 7 are clearly the best ones for this species
Chart for Meadow Brown. All years are similar in their numbers for each section with 2024 showing a higher number of recordings in three out of the four sections. It appears as though is is another species that was not affected by the poor weather conditions in winter/spring of 2023/24 and during the summer months of 2024. It will be interesting to see whether they maintain their numbers in 2025.
Here are four more charts each showing an individual species and the number recorded per section for each of the years of our survey on the transect.
All are members of the Nymphalidae family and all show that they did not suffer on our site in 2024.
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A data table showing each year of our transect and the number of Orange Tip butterflies seen each year. An accompanying line chart with an upward trend line. We only recorded 21 Orange Tips in 2024 but that’s good for our site and significantly higher than any of the other years
One of the butterfly species that bucked the trend on our transect in 2024 was the Orange Tip.
This data and chart show an upward trend. Would anyone care to speculate why this species did well? Did this happen for you as well?
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I have created a feed to capture posts related to butterfly transects.
It will include any posts that use the tag #butterflytransect or the phrase ‘butterfly transect’
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Squeezed in a final #ButterflyTransect today for 2019, very challenging conditions but 4 species including this old Brown Hairstreak battling on to lay her eggs. A beautiful tangle of Grass Snake hatchling under a…
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Not the best conditions for butterflies today, but this freshly emerged Marbled White made it worthwhile! #biodiversitygatwick #butterflytransect @savebutterflies
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