Kent Butterflies

Butterflies in Kingston, Kent
First Sightings 2015

Last updated - 27 October 2015

Species

Seen

2014

Days
Earlier (-) or Later (+) than 2014

Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urtica)

2 January

21 February

-50

Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni)

7 March

8 March

-1

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

12 March

1 June

-80

Peacock (Inachis io)

12 March

8 March

+4

Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)

13 April

2 May

-19

Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines)

20 April

10 April

+10

Comma (Polygonia c-album)

24 April

4 March

+30

Small White (Pieris rapae)

23 April

16 April

+7

Green-veined White(Pieris napi)

4 May

17 April

+17

Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus)

11 May

13 April

+28

Painted Lady (Cynthia cardui)

7 June

5 June

+2

Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina)

15 June

12 June

+3

Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris)

15 June June

2 July

-17

Large Skipper (Ochlodes venata)

29 June

27 June

+2

Marbled White (Melanargia galathea)

1 July

12 July

-11

Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus)

1 July

none seen

 

Large White (Pieris brassicae)

2 July

18 May

+44

Gatekeeper (Pyronia thithonus)

3 July

12 July

-9

Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)

14 August

12 June

+63

Grayling (Hipparchia semele)

14 August

Note

-

Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera)

 

11 May

 

Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus)

 

19 October

 

White Admiral (Lodoga camilla)

 

none seen

 

Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)

 

none seen

 

Essex Skipper (Thymelicus lineola)

 

none seen

 

Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus)

 

none seen

 

Notes:
This is the first ever sighting by me of a Grayling at Kingston (though tI saw them locally sevweral years ago at Shepherdswell and Folkestone Warren)
Commas and Red Admirals were still being seen on the wing as late as 27 October

The above represents the list of all butterfly species I have previously seen in Kingston