Map of area covered for records
Butterfly Survey 1976-2015
Silver Studded Blue
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wingspan: 28mm
Habit: The silver studded blue is no longer present in our area , but Michael Chalmers Hunt recorded a colony on the rough ground at the top of the railway tunnel above Eynsford Village. However, the butterfly is recorded in areas to the West of this study in Surrey and to the South in the Ashdown Forest.
Single brooded, larval Foodplant: gorse,broom,birds foot trefoil and others. Eggs laid in summer, caterpillar emerges in following year.
Status: not now present
By Rodney Compton
WH - White Hill Shoreham, BC - Bromley Common, Ha Hayes --BN Bromley North - Ey Eynsford - Orp Orpington
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