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Large Skipper
These small, moth-like butterflies emerge in large numbers in late June and July, for a brief season. They prefer the longer grasses and brambles on the woodland edge or beside scrubby hedge lines. The population fluctuates between years, with the peak numbers seen in 2018 making it the third most numerous butterfly that year, and following the crash in 2020 and again in 2021 numbers picked up in the hot summer of 2022.
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63 24 18th June 8th August
22 12 2nd July 23rd July
40 14 22nd June 31st July
145 43 22nd June 29th July
271 100 18th June 24th July
54 22 19th June 24th July
30 9 5th July 7th August
131 44 27th June 22nd August