Just moving some stuff over from the old site and I noticed the Butterfly Survey that Phil Parr of Devon Butterfly Conservation supplied to us in 2006. Okay, so it’s 5 years out of date, but we haven’t had too many posts on butterflies recently so I thought it was about time!
You can download the original here:
Butterfly Conservation (Devon Branch) – Lower Bruckland Site Report 2006
But here are the salient points, without the nice butterfly pictures:
| Species | Max No. | Date |
| Small Red-eyed Damselfly | 54 | Jul-23 |
| Red-veined Darter | 9 | Jul-4 |
| Common Blue | 6 | Aug-17 |
| Clouded Yellow | 4 | Aug-17 |
| Small White | 4 | Aug-17 |
| Red-eyed Damselfly | 4 | Jul-23 |
| Speckled Wood | 3 | Aug-17 |
| Small Copper | 1 | 39311 |
| Painted Lady | 1 | Aug-17 |
| Emperor Dragonfly | 1 | Jul-3 |
| Lesser Emperor | 1 | Jul-16 |
| Common Darter | 1 | Jun-13 |
For those that don’t know, Butterfly Conservation have been studying and helping to protect butterflies in the UK since 1968; thanks to Phil and his colleagues, firstly for doing what they do for butterflies, but also for passing on the reports!