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Durlston Country Park West
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Dorset (England) |
| Gridref: | SZ027770 |
| Year established: | 1980 |
| Number of sections: | 8 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 1580 |
| 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 | 0 | .79 | more | ||
| Ringlet | ? | 3 | .5 | more | ||
| Dark Green Fritillary | Stable | 4 | .6 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | * | 5 | .6 | more | |
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 0 | .53 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 4 | .2 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 170 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Stable | 6 | .9 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Increasing | 23 | more | |||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 120 | more | |||
| Grayling | Stable | 2 | .8 | more | ||
| Brimstone | ? | 0 | .41 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 15 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Increasing | 290 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Decreasing | 38 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Increasing | 1000 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper / Hedge Brown | Stable | 1200 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Increasing | 1000 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 27 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Decreasing | 68 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Decreasing | 110 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | Stable | 56 | more | |||
| Large White | Stable | 65 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | ? | 0 | .46 | more | ||
| Small White | Stable | 150 | more | |||
| Comma | Increasing | 2 | .1 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Stable | 560 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Decreasing | 16 | more | |||
| Lulworth Skipper | Stable | 650 | more | |||
| Small Skipper | Stable | * | 150 | more | ||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 30 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 18 | more | |||
| Small/Essex Skipper | Stable | 110 | 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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