Summer days spent chasing butterflies in the sun. What a summer we've had and some of our scarcer butterflies seem to have had a bumper year (while a some of the "commoner" species have scarcely been seen at all). Around the Cambridgeshire Woods Black Hairstreak were abundant for a couple of weeks in their chosen woods. They disperse very small distances but hopefully there will be some small gains in range after such a strong flight. Even in late June there were still Black Hairstreaks on the wing when Silver-Washed Fritillaries were evident down the sun bleached rides.
In the Ely10 White-letter Hairstreaks were present in all their regular haunts, Marbled Whites continue to thrive and just a few kilometres south Dark Green Fritillary and Purple Emperors numbers slowly build around Newmarket.
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