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West Moors (RAOC)
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Dorset (England) |
| Gridref: | SU090045 |
| Year established: | 1985 |
| Number of sections: | |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 3030 |
| Width (m): | Unknown |
| Broad habitat: | Wet and dry heathland/ dry heather moorland |
Species list...
The following species have been recorded on this site:
| Species | Status | Colonised/extinct | Asynchronous | Mean count | ||
| Small Tortoiseshell | Decreasing | 37 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 4 | .2 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Increasing | Colonised in 2000 | 0 | .69 | more | |
| Silver-washed Fritillary | ? | 0 | .82 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Increasing | Colonised in 1991 | 15 | more | ||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 9 | .5 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 6 | .1 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 360 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Increasing | 2 | .7 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Decreasing | Extinct in 1994 | 0 | .83 | more | |
| Grayling | Stable | 1500 | more | |||
| Brimstone | Increasing | 57 | more | |||
| White Admiral | ? | 0 | .17 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 76 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | ? | 0 | .040 | more | ||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 560 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Increasing | 680 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Increasing | 2 | .0 | more | ||
| Peacock | Stable | 53 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 49 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Increasing | 7 | .3 | more | ||
| Wall Brown | ? | 0 | .19 | more | ||
| Large White | Stable | 70 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Increasing | 29 | more | |||
| Small White | Decreasing | 25 | more | |||
| Silver-studded Blue | Decreasing | 450 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | 4 | .1 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Increasing | * | 150 | more | ||
| Grizzled Skipper | Increasing | Colonised in 2000 | * | 1 | .8 | more |
| Small Skipper | Stable | 86 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 14 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 5 | .9 | 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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