2012
TL3868 : Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae)
taken 12 years ago, near to Over, Cambridgeshire, England
Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae)
A little-known snag in the construction of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway was that it cut through a colony of this diminutive butterfly. A solution was found involving converting some patches of arable land into "mitigation areas" which will contain the species' local food-plant (creeping cinquefoil, as seen in
SX9066 : Creeping Cinquefoil, former Barton tip), and unplanted gravel basking areas.
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