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Whipsnade Downs
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Bedfordshire (England) |
| Gridref: | TL012182 |
| Year established: | 1988 |
| Number of sections: | 11 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 2500 |
| Width (m): | 5 |
| 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 | ||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 12 | more | |||
| Ringlet | Stable | 300 | more | |||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 80 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 22 | more | |||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 1 | .4 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 140 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | ? | 0 | .31 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Stable | 1 | .2 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 0 | .37 | more | ||
| Brimstone | Increasing | 71 | more | |||
| Duke of Burgundy Fritillary | Stable | 7 | .3 | more | ||
| White Admiral | ? | 0 | .41 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 4 | .6 | more | ||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | 150 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 670 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper / Hedge Brown | Increasing | 200 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Increasing | 220 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 53 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 29 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 51 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | Decreasing | 8 | .2 | more | ||
| Large White | Stable | 120 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 57 | more | |||
| Small White | Stable | 170 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | 6 | .7 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Stable | 100 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Increasing | 5 | .9 | more | ||
| Small Skipper | Increasing | * | 21 | more | ||
| Red Admiral | Increasing | 12 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 7 | .4 | more | ||
| Small/Essex Skipper | Decreasing | 130 | 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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