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Castle Hill
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | East Sussex (England) |
| Gridref: | TQ3707 |
| Year established: | 1978 |
| Number of sections: | 12 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 2739 |
| 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 | ||
| Small Tortoiseshell | Decreasing | 64 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | ? | 0 | .040 | more | ||
| Dark Green Fritillary | Stable | 3 | .1 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 10 | more | |||
| Holly Blue | ? | 0 | .14 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Stable | 300 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Increasing | 3 | .5 | more | ||
| Small Blue | Stable | 3 | .6 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 46 | more | |||
| Brimstone | Stable | Colonised in 1994 | 0 | .84 | more | |
| Silver-spotted Skipper | ? | 17 | more | |||
| Small Copper | Stable | 67 | more | |||
| Adonis Blue | Stable | 100 | more | |||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Decreasing | 1300 | more | |||
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 1900 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Increasing | 33 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Increasing | 210 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 31 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Stable | 36 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | Extinct in 1995 | 1 | .3 | more | |
| Wall Brown | Stable | 19 | more | |||
| Large White | Stable | 20 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 4 | .2 | more | ||
| Small White | Stable | 99 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | * | 1 | .9 | more | |
| Common Blue | Stable | 440 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | ? | 0 | .35 | more | ||
| Small Skipper | ? | 1 | .2 | more | ||
| Red Admiral | Stable | 6 | .7 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | Increasing | 7 | .5 | 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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