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Cerne Abbas Giant
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Dorset (England) |
| Gridref: | ST667017 |
| Year established: | 1994 |
| Number of sections: | |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | Unknown |
| 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 | Stable | 200 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 5 | .5 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Stable | 4 | .2 | more | ||
| Dark Green Fritillary | Stable | 1 | .5 | more | ||
| Silver-washed Fritillary | ? | 3 | .9 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 42 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 2 | .8 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 1 | .7 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 580 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Stable | 7 | .0 | more | ||
| Small Blue | ? | 2 | .9 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 41 | more | |||
| Marsh Fritillary | Stable | 120 | more | |||
| Brimstone | Stable | 31 | more | |||
| Duke of Burgundy Fritillary | Stable | 1 | .4 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 19 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 110 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Increasing | 140 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 3200 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Stable | 450 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Decreasing | 280 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 36 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Decreasing | 10 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Increasing | 53 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | Stable | 6 | .1 | more | ||
| Large White | Stable | 120 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 22 | more | |||
| Small White | Stable | 240 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | 3 | .5 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Stable | 400 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Stable | 68 | more | |||
| Small Skipper | Decreasing | 56 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 33 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 15 | 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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