--- In cornwall-butterfly-conservation@..., <jowan@...>
wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Some of you may have seen the email on the UK-Leps site re. the
White-letter
> Hairstreak survey. See web site:
>
> http://www.w-album.hertsmiddx-butterflies.org.uk/
>
>
> My ERICA database is down at the moment so I can't give any details of
any
> Cornish White-letter Hairstreak records. Despite the lack of recent
records
> there is a chance that it could still be in Cornwall because elms are
a
> common tree or shrub. Details of the butterfly and elms are given on
the
> survey web site.
>
> The best news is, that it is an all year round survey as, White-letter
> Hairstreak eggs have already been found in Yorkshire. So despite the
> *weather, I have only seen one butterfly so far this year, it is
possible to
> get out there recording.
>
> John Worth
> Cornwall Butterfly Recorder
>
> *Over three inches of rain near Land's End on the 4th March. And half
an
> inch recorded today so far.

Hi John, et al, migrantmad2
Cornwall

Trust you'll be going out in your boat to look for WLH'Strk eggs in this
weather Off the topof my head, latest adult is 2ndAug.1985 at
Pontsmill(RL), and the nearest to that: 28thJune,1984 at Sheviock(JOG),
only two others in the (earlier) 1980s, otherwise 'all' in '70s & '60s,
I believe. Anyway you can find detail in Penhallurick, 1996, p.49 etc.
All this UNLESS you have more recent recent records (once computer is
'up & running')!

Should really make a concentrated effort this year, can't be (m)any
sites now.

Roger Lane migrantmad2
St.Austell


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