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Bonchurch Down
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Isle of Wight (England) |
| Gridref: | SZ576785 |
| Year established: | 1993 |
| Number of sections: | |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 650 |
| Width (m): | Unknown |
| Broad habitat: | Dry semi/unimproved (flower rich) chalk/limestone grassland |
Species list...
The following species have been recorded on this site:
| Species | Status | Colonised/extinct | Asynchronous | Mean count | ||
| Small Tortoiseshell | ? | 0 | .59 | more | ||
| Orange Tip | ? | 0 | .19 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Stable | Colonised in 2000 | 3 | .2 | more | |
| Dark Green Fritillary | Stable | 0 | .59 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 93 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 3 | .5 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 0 | .52 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 37 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | ? | 0 | .74 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 10 | more | |||
| Grayling | Stable | 2 | .6 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Decreasing | 26 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Increasing | 83 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Decreasing | * | 190 | more | ||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 420 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Stable | 130 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Increasing | 110 | more | |||
| Peacock | ? | 1 | .3 | more | ||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 8 | .4 | more | ||
| Speckled Wood | ? | 1 | .1 | more | ||
| Wall Brown | Stable | 8 | .2 | more | ||
| Large White | ? | 35 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | ? | 1 | .8 | more | ||
| Small White | ? | 10 | more | |||
| Common Blue | Stable | 85 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | ? | 1 | .4 | more | ||
| Small Skipper | Stable | 13 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | ? | 11 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | ? | 7 | .4 | more | ||
This table shows the species that have been recorded on this site. Where sufficient data is available, trends in abundance are assessed and colonisation/extinction events are identified. Species are marked as 'asynchronous' when their trends on this site are markedly different from the national trend. Click on 'more' to see a plot of abundance through time for each species. See green question mark above for more details.
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