Fortunes Of The Sussex Duke In 2012

The following article is the 'Species Champion' summary for Duke of Burgundy, reproduced from the Sussex Butterfly Report 2012 - Issue 5, Spring 2013. How did the butterfly do on your patch? In line with most of our species, the Duke of Burgundy had a difficult time in 2012, courtesy of the Great British weather. In the last couple of issues it has been very satisfying to publish bar charts demonstrating year-on-year increases in the Sussex population of this nationally threatened species....

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Image Test

Partly to test how large an image can be posted here, and also to get the juices flowing as the new season approaches, here's a pair caught in flagrante delicto on my guided walk at Heyshott last M...

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The Dukes Of Heyshott - Here We Go!

To set the ball rolling, here's an article I penned for the Murray Downland Trust Seventeenth Annual Report (2011). It perhaps gives us hope that by working together and sharing ideas through a forum such as this, we can preserve this beautiful and charismatic butterfly for the enjoyment of future generations. The Dukes of Heyshott  The Duke of Burgundy is one of the two most rapidly declining and threatened species of butterfly in the UK, which together with the High Brown...

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