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Mottistone Down
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Isle of Wight (England) |
| Gridref: | SZ4184 |
| Year established: | 1989 |
| Number of sections: | 8 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 1590 |
| 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 | 7 | .4 | more | ||
| Orange Tip | Increasing | 0 | .61 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Stable | 1 | .5 | more | ||
| Dark Green Fritillary | Stable | 39 | more | |||
| Brown Argus | Decreasing | 53 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 2 | .9 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | ? | 0 | .99 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 190 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Stable | 2 | .6 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Decreasing | 12 | more | |||
| Grayling | Stable | 23 | more | |||
| Brimstone | Stable | 0 | .76 | more | ||
| White Admiral | ? | 0 | .060 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 8 | .3 | more | ||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 37 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | 320 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 830 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Decreasing | 180 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 190 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 17 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Decreasing | 6 | .0 | more | ||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 3 | .3 | more | ||
| Wall Brown | Stable | 18 | more | |||
| Large White | Stable | 16 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 4 | .8 | more | ||
| Small White | Increasing | 16 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | 1 | .3 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Stable | 170 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Stable | 14 | more | |||
| Small Skipper | ? | 5 | .3 | more | ||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 7 | .0 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 7 | .2 | 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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