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Oxted Downs, Whistlers Steep
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Surrey (England) |
| Gridref: | TQ385542 |
| Year established: | 1994 |
| Number of sections: | |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 1380 |
| 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 | 6 | .8 | more | ||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 1 | .9 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Stable | 17 | more | |||
| Dark Green Fritillary | ? | 0 | .090 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 9 | .8 | more | ||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 2 | .6 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 0 | .78 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 110 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | ? | 0 | .62 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 3 | .6 | more | ||
| Brimstone | Stable | 17 | more | |||
| Small Copper | Stable | 1 | .2 | more | ||
| Adonis Blue | ? | 0 | .070 | more | ||
| Chalk-hill Blue | ? | 1 | .2 | more | ||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 220 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Stable | 59 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 0 | .80 | more | ||
| Peacock | Stable | 11 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 11 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 5 | .0 | more | ||
| Large White | Increasing | 6 | .1 | more | ||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 1 | .2 | more | ||
| Small White | Increasing | 4 | .4 | more | ||
| Comma | Stable | * | 1 | .3 | more | |
| Common Blue | Stable | 160 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Stable | 7 | .2 | more | ||
| White-letter Hairstreak | ? | 0 | .15 | more | ||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 1 | .3 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | ? | 0 | .89 | 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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