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Folkestone Escarpment
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Kent (England) |
| Gridref: | TR2138 |
| Year established: | 1987 |
| Number of sections: | 15 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 3663 |
| 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 | 34 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 5 | .5 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Decreasing | 81 | more | |||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 54 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 11 | more | |||
| Holly Blue | ? | 4 | .1 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 220 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | ? | 1 | .5 | more | ||
| Small Blue | ? | 2 | .5 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Increasing | * | 77 | more | ||
| Brimstone | Stable | 1 | .7 | more | ||
| Silver-spotted Skipper | ? | 0 | .050 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 4 | .4 | more | ||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 190 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | * | 0 | .92 | more | |
| Meadow Brown | Increasing | 400 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Increasing | 130 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 240 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 24 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 140 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 140 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | Stable | 61 | more | |||
| Large White | Stable | 100 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 21 | more | |||
| Small White | ? | 89 | more | |||
| Comma | Increasing | 11 | more | |||
| Common Blue | Increasing | 300 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Stable | * | 14 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 7 | .1 | 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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