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Upton Cow Down (MOD)
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Wiltshire (England) |
| Gridref: | ST871484 |
| Year established: | 1983 |
| Number of sections: | 7 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 650 |
| 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 | ||
| Orange Tip | Increasing | 1 | .8 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Stable | 46 | more | |||
| Dark Green Fritillary | Decreasing | 1 | .7 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 35 | more | |||
| Green Hairstreak | Stable | 4 | .9 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 0 | .83 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 72 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | ? | 0 | .36 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Stable | 0 | .40 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Increasing | 2 | .6 | more | ||
| Brimstone | Increasing | 3 | .3 | more | ||
| Duke of Burgundy Fritillary | ? | 0 | .25 | more | ||
| Small Copper | Stable | 0 | .58 | more | ||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 14 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | 19 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 430 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper / Hedge Brown | Stable | 27 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 110 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 13 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 10 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 16 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | Stable | 12 | more | |||
| Large White | Stable | 8 | .8 | more | ||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 12 | more | |||
| Small White | Stable | 24 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | 0 | .70 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Stable | 86 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | ? | 0 | .10 | more | ||
| Small Skipper | Stable | 110 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 1 | .7 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 2 | .2 | more | ||
| Small/Essex Skipper | Decreasing | 100 | 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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