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Malling Down
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | East Sussex (England) |
| Gridref: | TQ430107 |
| Year established: | 1984 |
| Number of sections: | |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 2650 |
| 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 | Decreasing | 64 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 3 | .1 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Increasing | Colonised in 2001 | 1 | .3 | more | |
| Dark Green Fritillary | ? | 0 | .090 | more | ||
| Silver-washed Fritillary | ? | 0 | .040 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 64 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Increasing | 14 | more | |||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 3 | .3 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 250 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Increasing | 2 | .3 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Stable | 0 | .36 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 50 | more | |||
| Brimstone | Stable | 32 | more | |||
| Silver-spotted Skipper | Increasing | Colonised in 1999 | 1 | .9 | more | |
| Small Copper | Stable | 86 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 340 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | 210 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 2300 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Stable | 360 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 150 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 24 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Decreasing | 9 | .5 | more | ||
| Speckled Wood | Decreasing | 21 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | Stable | 19 | more | |||
| Large White | Stable | 110 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Decreasing | 11 | more | |||
| Small White | Decreasing | 68 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | 9 | .6 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Increasing | 430 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Increasing | 6 | .8 | more | ||
| Purple Hairstreak | ? | 0 | .040 | more | ||
| Red Admiral | Increasing | 18 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 9 | .0 | 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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