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Swanage
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Dorset (England) |
| Gridref: | SZ0281 |
| Year established: | 1976 |
| Number of sections: | 15 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 3397 |
| 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 | Decreasing | 26 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 7 | .8 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Increasing | Colonised in 1994 | 2 | .4 | more | |
| Dark Green Fritillary | Decreasing | 7 | .7 | more | ||
| Silver-washed Fritillary | ? | 0 | .10 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Decreasing | 110 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Decreasing | 18 | more | |||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 15 | more | |||
| Small Heath | Decreasing | 110 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Increasing | 4 | .3 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 37 | more | |||
| Grayling | Decreasing | 12 | more | |||
| Brimstone | Stable | 1 | .4 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 18 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 660 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Decreasing | * | 25 | more | ||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 810 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Decreasing | 350 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 150 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 22 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Decreasing | 18 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 210 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | Decreasing | 21 | more | |||
| Large White | Stable | 57 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 7 | .1 | more | ||
| Small White | Stable | 86 | more | |||
| Silver-studded Blue | ? | 0 | .11 | more | ||
| Comma | Increasing | 5 | .7 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Stable | 250 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | ? | 0 | .030 | more | ||
| White-letter Hairstreak | ? | 0 | .030 | more | ||
| Purple Hairstreak | ? | 0 | .030 | more | ||
| Lulworth Skipper | Stable | 13 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Increasing | 17 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | Increasing | 5 | .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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