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Aston Upthorpe Downs
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Oxfordshire (England) |
| Gridref: | SU545837 |
| Year established: | 1993 |
| Number of sections: | |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 3500 |
| 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 | ||
| Small Tortoiseshell | Stable | 27 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 9 | .7 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Stable | 200 | more | |||
| Dark Green Fritillary | ? | 4 | .0 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 13 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 5 | .2 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 1 | .9 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Increasing | 120 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Stable | 1 | .9 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Stable | 2 | .2 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 11 | more | |||
| Brimstone | Increasing | 110 | more | |||
| Duke of Burgundy Fritillary | Decreasing | 8 | .0 | more | ||
| Silver-spotted Skipper | Stable | 4 | .7 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 12 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | ? | 0 | .49 | more | ||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | 83 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Increasing | 690 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Stable | 210 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 140 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 39 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 27 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 21 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | ? | 0 | .090 | more | ||
| Large White | Stable | 61 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 51 | more | |||
| Small White | Stable | 170 | more | |||
| Comma | Increasing | 7 | .5 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Increasing | 260 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Stable | 27 | more | |||
| Small Skipper | Decreasing | 48 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 5 | .8 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 3 | .8 | 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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