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Townsend Quarry (DWT)
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Dorset (England) |
| Gridref: | SZ025783 |
| Year established: | 1994 |
| Number of sections: | 10 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 1600 |
| Width (m): | 5 |
| Broad habitat: | Bare ground/weed communities of post industrial sites e.g. quarries/pits/road/rail/landfill sites |
Species list...
The following species have been recorded on this site:
| Species | Status | Colonised/extinct | Asynchronous | Mean count | ||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 10 | more | |||
| Ringlet | ? | 0 | .080 | more | ||
| Dark Green Fritillary | ? | 0 | .35 | more | ||
| Silver-washed Fritillary | ? | 1 | .0 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Decreasing | 17 | more | |||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 24 | more | |||
| Small Heath | Stable | 8 | .2 | more | ||
| Clouded Yellow | Stable | 3 | .2 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Stable | 34 | more | |||
| Dingy Skipper | Decreasing | 8 | .5 | more | ||
| Grayling | ? | 0 | .54 | more | ||
| Brimstone | Stable | 1 | .0 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 12 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 19 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Decreasing | 1 | .8 | more | ||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 1000 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper / Hedge Brown | Stable | 290 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 270 | more | |||
| Peacock | Decreasing | 36 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Decreasing | 16 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Decreasing | 150 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | Stable | 8 | .8 | more | ||
| Large White | Stable | 140 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Decreasing | 16 | more | |||
| Small White | Decreasing | 94 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | 11 | more | |||
| Common Blue | Decreasing | 340 | more | |||
| Lulworth Skipper | Stable | 5 | .9 | more | ||
| Small Skipper | Decreasing | 28 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Decreasing | 97 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 29 | more | |||
| Small/Essex Skipper | Decreasing | 36 | 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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