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Boscombe Down A (MOD)
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Wiltshire (England) |
| Gridref: | SU177412 |
| Year established: | 1983 |
| Number of sections: | |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 500 |
| 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 | 87 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 4 | .2 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Increasing | 18 | more | |||
| Dark Green Fritillary | Stable | 3 | .2 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 44 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 17 | more | |||
| Holly Blue | ? | 0 | .15 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Decreasing | 92 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Stable | 1 | .3 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Stable | 53 | more | |||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 32 | more | |||
| Marsh Fritillary | Stable | 1 | .7 | more | ||
| Brimstone | Increasing | 37 | more | |||
| Small Copper | Decreasing | 40 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 54 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | 82 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 570 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Stable | 190 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 460 | more | |||
| Peacock | Increasing | 51 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 25 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | ? | 1 | .0 | more | ||
| Wall Brown | ? | 0 | .22 | more | ||
| Large White | Increasing | * | 50 | more | ||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 11 | more | |||
| Small White | Increasing | 200 | more | |||
| Comma | Increasing | Colonised in 1999 | 0 | .93 | more | |
| Common Blue | Stable | 260 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Stable | 12 | more | |||
| Small Skipper | Stable | 78 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Increasing | 8 | .6 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 3 | .7 | 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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