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Aston Upthorpe Downs
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Oxfordshire (England) |
| Gridref: | SU545837 |
| Year established: | 1993 |
| Number of sections: | 8 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 3500 |
| 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 | ||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 9 | .8 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Stable | 210 | more | |||
| Dark Green Fritillary | ? | 2 | .2 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 14 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 5 | .2 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 1 | .9 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Increasing | 110 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Stable | 2 | .0 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Decreasing | 1 | .9 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 12 | more | |||
| Brimstone | Increasing | 110 | more | |||
| Duke of Burgundy Fritillary | Decreasing | 6 | .9 | more | ||
| Silver-spotted Skipper | Stable | 4 | .2 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 14 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Increasing | 0 | .57 | more | ||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | 80 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Increasing | 740 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper / Hedge Brown | Stable | 210 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 150 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 42 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 26 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 21 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | ? | 0 | .080 | more | ||
| Large White | Stable | 56 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 50 | more | |||
| Small White | Stable | 150 | more | |||
| Comma | Increasing | 8 | .0 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Stable | 250 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Stable | 29 | more | |||
| Small Skipper | Decreasing | 31 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 6 | .2 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 3 | .9 | more | ||
| Small/Essex Skipper | Stable | 94 | 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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