FRANCE Butterflies of Wild Dordogne June 2015

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1 FRANCE Butterflies of Wild Dordogne June 2015 TOUR REPORT Leader: David Simpson Day 1: Saturday 13 June As I drove up to Bergerac airport a hobby flew over the bypass surely a good omen for a Travelling Naturalist holiday! I parked up in my usual place on a service road near the airport perimeter fence where I could wait for the flight and indulge in a bit of wildlife watching. As I scanned around the area I noted kestrel, black kite, stonechat with melodious warbler and nightingale singing nearby. There was a nice selection of common butterflies too: meadow brown, marbled white, large white, small white, clouded yellow, painted lady and small heath. Soon the Ryanair flight came into view and landed. I left the minibus in the car park and met one of the group - Angela - who had come out on an earlier Flybe flight and had been waiting patiently for the rest of the group to arrive. Soon afterwards Jim, Alan, and David & Lilian emerged from arrivals and we all introduced ourselves to one another. It was a quick return for Jim and Angela who both came on the same holiday last year! I went off to collect the minibus and we were soon loaded up and ready to go. In less than 30 minutes we were at Le Barrage Hotel, Mauzac by the river where Amanda, the manageress, greeted us whilst Kate and Jim (who had been staying for the previous two weeks in our gite) joined us to say hello to everyone. After sorting out keys and rooms we reconvened in the restaurant for tea and coffee followed by an introduction concerning the week ahead. With an early afternoon flight and good weather we spent the late afternoon in the local area the hill and valley near my house at Saint-Meyme-de-Rozens. Down by the river before we left we saw black kite, white wagtail and crag martin which nest locally, plus a few western demoiselle damselflies. swallowtail, female Cleopatra (photographed by one of the group, David P) and hummingbird hawk-moth appeared briefly on the hotel terrace. On route a roe deer ran across a nearby field. Up on the hill we found plenty of Adonis and common blues, marbled whites and meadow browns. But we also recorded wood white, Ilex hairstreak, small blue, spotted fritillary, small heath, pearly heath and Lulworth skipper. David and Lilian found several moths: Mother Shipton, straw belle and a lovely bordered gothic. We also saw several sixspot burnet moths. A blue emperor and several pincertails were present as well. Birds were still fairly active and we saw buzzard, jay and long-tailed tit and heard song thrush, Bonelli s warbler, tree pipit and cirl bunting.

2 We stopped again briefly to check out the damp marshy meadow in the valley bottom but apart from a large skipper it was very quiet. The hilltop walk however had been a pleasant introduction to some of the butterflies and other wildlife of the local area. Day 2: Sunday 14 June Sunday started cool and wet so we decided to have an indoor session. I collected the ipad and TV from home and gave a presentation on the butterflies of Dordogne. Amanda kindly provided us with tea and coffee and we followed this with a brief walk up to the dam and this took up the morning. There were three little egrets near the dam and one or two nightingale sang from the scrub. With the weather clearing we looked forward to a more profitable afternoon session in the field. We drove up to the viewpoint at Trémolat and walked along the old rough track in the sunshine. Again we found plenty of Adonis and common blues, marbled whites and meadow browns, in fact a similar mix of commoner species as we had seen at Saint-Meyme the day before. Angela added small copper to our list and we also had good views of other new species: woodland grayling (which landed on several of us) and grayling. A painted lady on the track was also new for the week. It was also good to see plenty of pearly heath and some more small blue, wood white and spotted fritillary. Skippers were notable with five species: red-underwing, Lulworth, Essex, small and large. There were more day-flying moths including the pretty burnet Zygaena fausta, latticed heath and the common purple and gold micro. Various dragonflies were seen in amongst the scrub: a female black-tailed skimmer, blue emperor, scarce (blue) chaser, orange-spotted emerald, large pincertail plus orange, blue and white featherlegs. Several interesting or new birds heard included blackcap, firecrest, Bonelli s warbler, golden oriole, shorttoed treecreeper and cirl bunting - all typical birds of the Dordogne countryside in summer. A greenfinch went up on its song flight as we returned to the minibus. Travelling to the next site a Stonechat on the wire was also a new species for the week. For the final stop for the afternoon we headed for a small pond near my house noted for marbled newts. Unfortunately the newts weren t performing today but there were certainly green frogs in residence. Nearby we saw Berger s clouded yellow in a meadow and a meadow fritillary. One of the group - Jim F - had strolled down the road a little and came across a wonderful site masses of marbled whites covering a flower border of lavender plants. We watched this spectacle for sometime. Nearby in amongst the marbled whites we found a fresh mallow skipper showing well. All in all a nice way to finish the day especially after it had looked like poor weather would spoil our chances. Day 3: Monday 15 June The weather was warm though rather cloudy in the morning at the hotel. We were visiting the Les Eyzies area today and so headed eastward up the Vézère valley for 30 minutes. First stop was the reed bed area on the road to Meyrals in the Petite Beune valley. Cetti s and reed warblers were singing but otherwise it was quiet bird-wise. By the little brook next to the road we found several southern damselflies. Continuing up the road through the woods we passed the Scot s Pine with its roots in the air seemingly defying gravity! Around the next corner we came to a meadow full of wildflowers. Marbled whites and meadow browns were already active but other species were less so. We spread out and explored this interesting area later to be named Alan s Meadow as he was so impressed with it. Gradually other butterfly species showed themselves as it warmed up and the sky brightened. We found our first black-veined whites magnificent large butterflies. We added Brimstone to our list and then a string of fritillaries which we religiously followed around the meadow: dark green, marbled, Weaver s, knapweed, spotted and heath quite an impressive haul! A forester moth was another good sighting. Returning back to the road it was the turn of two European swallowtails to entertain us. In the trees nearby crested tits were calling and we also saw woodlark. We walked back to the minibus and drove across to lunch at the nice Chateaubriant restaurant in Les Eyzies. Crag martins were buzzing around the cliffs and a serin was singing in the gardens as we arrived in the village.

3 After an excellent lunch stop we explored the other nearby Beune valley: the Grande Beune. By now the sun was shining and invertebrates were much more active. There was a range of dragonflies where we parked the minibus: both Keeled and Southern Skimmers and both pincertails. Further down the track we found Large Red Damselfly and another blue skimmer: black-tailed. Near the minibus we had great views of a very fresh female Holly Blue with thick black wing tips. The marshy meadow area adjacent to the vehicle was quiet butterfly-wise but there were several great green bush-crickets and some good orchids: bog orchids and marsh helleborine. Moving further along the track there were plenty of marbled whites and meadow browns and one of two very fresh great banded graylings made an appearance. There were also speckled wood, pearly heath and painted lady nearby. Beside the poplar wood were several ringlets together with beautiful and copper demoiselles and nearby a lone western demoiselle. In the next meadow we found our prize: three female large coppers all waiting to be photographed! This was a great result as they are often a rather elusive species. Of the day flying moths we saw burnet companion, common heath and Mother Shipton. Notable birds here were golden oriole singing and middle spotted woodpecker calling. Further up the valley we stopped for a short while at an old quarry before returning to the hotel. A large bramble patch produced several Ilex Hairstreaks and a Berger s clouded yellow put in an appearance on some buddleia at the top of the cliff nearby. A red-underwing skipper was a good sighting amongst the commoner species. Various dragonflies were hunting and basking amongst the scrub - mainly pincertails. Jim F found another bird species to our list by the river back at the hotel sand martin. Day 4: Tuesday 16 June Today we went south of the River Dordogne to the Bessède Forest, an area of pine plantations, mixed woodland and heath with a few scattered farms. Although it was a rather cloudy morning the forecast was encouraging. As we drove through the forest to the first site we stopped to check an unusual looking bird of prey. In fact it was a common buzzard but quite pale and looking more like a miniature bald eagle! With it was a rather dark individual for comparison. On route we surprised a moorhen out on the road a new species for the list. We pulled up and parked at the regular stop near Bouillac and walked along a forest track. Amongst the young pines a whitethroat was singing and up in a tree a yellowhammer also sang. Cuckoo, nightingale, golden oriole, turtle dove and middle spotted woodpecker provided a nice background chorus. The sky was brightening and the temperature warming up as we walked towards the trees, as usual meadow brown and marbled whites were flying but that was about all. Beside the track we saw where the turf had been ripped up by wild boar which had left their footprints in the now-dried mud. We continued on down the track to a junction where the sun started to come out. Almost immediately we started to see butterflies. At first white admirals and then large fritillaries: a couple of silver-washed and a high brown which settled for David P to photograph. Heath Fritillaries also began to move and we all had some very good views of this beautiful little butterfly, rare in UK. Walking back up the track at another junction we saw our first woodland brown, a great rarity and only recently discovered in Dordogne. They are larger and darker than a meadow brown with a more graceful flight and flit amongst the trees often just out of sight. This one rested on a leaf where we could watch it briefly. I managed to catch one to show to the group properly pointing out the attractive underside markings of a stripe and ringlets before releasing it. All around us firecrest, short-toed treecreeper and nuthatch were singing in the trees. Further on more white admirals were flying and as we walked back to the bus David P photographed speckled yellow and Latin moths. On the track we saw several pincertails including a large and further on there was a rather grisly disembowelled male green lizard. On the flowers a nice red and black striped shield bug was Graphosoma lineatum.

4 By now it was lunchtime so we drove to the village of Cadouin where we ate by the abbey in a busy little restaurant. Like many local restaurants they seemed determined to give us soup even though we hadn t ordered it and seemed surprised when we declined it! However the meal was good and suitably refreshed and restored we returned to the forest to look for another great rarity the false ringlet. Stopping by the roadside the group concentrated on the roadside verge whilst I searched the young heathy pine plantation. There is a good colony of false ringlet here and almost immediately I found one which I netted for the group. Though small it is a pretty butterfly, a dark heath also with a line and ringlets on the underside. The group found one or two commoner butterflies by the road including our only Glanville Fritillary of the week. There were many interesting flowers: heath lobelia, heath spotted, lesser butterfly and fragrant orchids and Jim F found us some late bee orchids. Yellowhammer and tree pipit sang from nearby trees as we boarded the bus to move on to the next site. On the road back to Cadouin we stopped near a road junction by some interesting hidden meadows. Some of us explored the meadows whilst others stayed on the roadside adjacent. There was a wealth of butterflies here and some of us saw several more woodland brown briefly. Large fritillaries were flying including dark green, silver-washed, marbled and probably high brown too. There were good numbers of heath fritillary as well. We also found comma, holly blue, brimstone, black-veined white, pearly heath and ringlets apart from the commoner species. In the damp area by the junction there were beautiful demoiselle and orange featherleg damselflies. There were also several European hornet and great green bush-crickets about. Returning to Mauzac we saw a couple of grey spotty juvenile green woodpeckers fly up from a field. Back at the hotel in the evening we added black-headed gull to our list and David P and Kate saw one of the local kingfishers which sadly proved rather elusive during this holiday. Day 5: Wednesday 17 June Our destination this morning was the Causse de Terrasson just upstream of Montignac in the Vézère valley. With warm sunny weather forecast we kept some of the best butterfly areas to the end of the week. It was about an hours drive before we arrived at our morning site: the dry stony limestone hills surrounded by forest near Aubas. As we disembarked from the bus a peregrine was calling from the valley below there is a regular pair which nests here. Whilst sorting out my things I suggested that the group walk along to a nearby bramble patch normally good for hairstreaks. It didn t disappoint with many blue-spot hairstreaks and several ilex. Amongst them I searched in vain for sloe hairstreak a species I have never seen in Dordogne. There were plenty of other butterflies about as the temperature warmed up including our first green-veined white of the week plus large, small and wood whites, Cleopatra, brimstone, black-veined white, pearly heath, silver-washed, marbled and heath fritillaries, small, large and Lulworth skippers and finally European swallowtail. There were also a few orange featherlegs and beautiful demoiselle damselflies about plus a hummingbird hawk-moth. Walking down into the main grassland area we spread out to search for more species. At first we all saw a good number of beautifully fresh great banded grayling as well as woodland grayling. These are large inquisitive butterflies which like to check people out and settle to take salt when appropriate! A roe deer showed itself briefly before disappearing into the trees. There were fewer butterflies on the open hillside than the concentration at the brambles but lots of interesting species nevertheless. Blue-spot hairstreaks seemed to be dotted about everywhere. Further down the hill where it became very stony and steep above the forest were a few great sooty satyrs. Nearby on a thyme patch was a lone rather large brown grizzledtype skipper with small white marks which at first I thought was Oberthur s. I caught it and David P kindly took some photos to help with identification. At the same time it turned out that Kate was photographing an almost identical skipper elsewhere on the hill. This proved to be safflower skipper (thanks to subsequent identification by European expert Guy Padfield via Kate) and then it was then clear that my skipper was also safflower though with upper wings quite different to typical greyish males with streaky white lines on the hind wings. As with most skippers the underside of the hind wing holds the key to identification. David showed me a photo he had taken of a blue which seemed different to all the Common and Adonis Blues. He

5 was correct as it was an Escher s Blue female with strong underside spotting especially the large discal spot in the middle of the forewing, and no cell spot. Fringes were chequered on the hindwing. This was a great find as I had been searching for one to show to the group. It is an extremely rare species in Dordogne - not surprisingly as this is the only area where its caterpillar food plant Montpellier milk-vetch grows. Elsewhere on the hill we found small and Adonis blues, knapweed fritillary, Berger s clouded and clouded yellows, spotted fritillary and red-underwing skipper. David P found a nice rosey footman, a very pretty little moth and there were several burnet companions. On the tracks were several pincertail dragonflies and I saw a goldenring hunting amongst the scrub. A large hairy caterpillar amongst the grasses proved to be a grass eggar. Before we packed up to go for lunch some of the group went to enjoy the splendid view from the nearby viewpoint. There were good views of three peregrines and various black kites, as well as the beautiful landscape as the river meanders south-westwards. We drove back to the picturesque old town of Montignac for lunch by the river with a wonderful view animated by numerous hirundines. For the afternoon session we drove back north to Condat to similar habitat to that we had visited at Aubas but in the valley bottom. This is another rich butterfly location and we were immediately immersed amongst them. There was a similar range of species to the morning site including a few more great sooty satyrs and another red-underwing skipper. New species for the week however were wall brown, southern white admiral and unexpectedly southern small white. This latter species was a new one for me. I caught a female near the bus and later on climbed the stony hillside where I netted a male. I showed them to the group and explained the details of identification to separate them from a common small white. Basically this revolves around the larger dark tip to the forewing reaching further down the outer wing edge and the extensive grey dusting to the scales on the hindwing underside. This species is extremely rare in Dordogne and is restricted to a few dry stony limestone hills and so a very exciting find. In the evening at Mauzac Kate recorded sand martin suggesting that they are nesting locally and Angela and Jim heard the resident Cetti s warblers. Day 6: Thursday 18 June With another warm sunny day forecast we headed for one of the best areas for butterflies in Dordogne, the Causse de Daglan. For the first part of the morning we stopped near Veyrines de Domme. The weather was sunny, calm and still cool perfect conditions for butterfly photography. Several ilex hairstreaks showed themselves along the rough hedge. Near a field edge a lovely fresh Queen of Spain fritillary stayed some time nectaring on various flowers. There were many great banded graylings already flying with a few posing for photographers. Further on we came across the great sooty satyrs at this large colony site. There were not only males but also females alighting on knapweed flowers or the ground a wonderful sight. By the trackside further on we saw Cleopatra, painted lady, wall brown and small skipper as well as many of the commoner species. For the rest of the morning we went to Montalieu to explore the damp meadows and quarry track. The recent rain had left one large puddle in the track (which had been dry the week before). As a result there were a few butterflies nearby including small blue and further along the track a nice fresh Provençal shorttailed blue. I caught it and we all looked at the small blue-like pattern on the underwing but with a vestigial tail and a little black spot at the outside corner of the hind wing. There were a few Cleopatras further up the hillside but they did not come down into the valley bottom to nectar. In the meadows were plenty of meadow brown and marbled white but there were also heath, knapweed, marbled and silver-washed Fritillaries. There was some kind of clubtail dragonfly hunting in the meadow but I couldn t positively identify it: probably western. I followed a small bright blue butterfly and netted it to check it was a Shorttailed Blue, a new species for the week, which I could then show to the group to contrast with the Provençal version. By now it was getting late so we drove to Daglan for the lunch stop. Here an English lady who runs the Thé Vert provided us with a tasty local meal on a shady terrace complete with a smart male black redstart!

6 For the afternoon we started near Saint-Pompon. This always a very rich butterfly site which can produce 40 species per day in June. We parked in a meadow by the road and I noticed Angela looking at a butterfly. I looked too and saw a small hairstreak (not her butterfly which flew off) nectaring happily and checked it through the binoculars. It didn t look right for an Ilex, in fact it seemed more like the rare sloe hairstreak. So I caught it and potted it up leaving it in the bus to cool down so that we could have a better look on our return from our walk. We set off along the track and immediately found more butterflies including ilex hairstreak, white admiral and pearly heath. Further on around a small meadow were various fritillaries, blues, browns and skippers including many Lulworth skippers and another weaver s fritillary. A red admiral whizzed down the track a new species for the week. Angela again found us a small copper, the second of the week. There were also a few worn black-veined whites flying about and the occasional Cleopatra, ringlet and great banded grayling. David P found another forester moth. On the drier stony sward we recorded spotted fritillary and red-underwing skipper. Here there are various interesting plants including the delicate mauve pitch trefoil, bright large yellow restharrow and a few man orchids. By now it was quite warm and even the butterflies were thinking about a siesta. We decided to return to the vehicle. As we reached the bus I noticed a faded blue on one of the mats of thyme in the recently cut hayfield a female long-tailed blue and an early date for this species locally. Everyone had good views of this rare immigrant to UK. At the bus I got the hairstreak out for everyone to see. It seemed to show the small grey spot and black spot above near the outer corner of the hind wing underside, features of the sloe hairstreak. It was small and relatively greybrown with a fairly straight hairstreak stippled line on the underside (mainly on the hind wing) also good for sloe hairstreak. We decided to pop it out onto the thyme again for photography and it kindly obliged. What clinched the identification was that it showed its black abdomen tip diagnostic of a female sloe hairstreak. Another new species for me! With a couple of hours before we needed to be back at Mauzac I decided to try a couple of small sites towards the Bessède Forest. The first of these was near a campsite where I worked as a wildlife guide in year Apart from the commoner butterflies which included heath and spotted fritillaries we did see some attractive orchids: fragrant, robust marsh, bee and lizard. With a little time still we drove up higher into the hills to a little reservoir. We briefly disturbed a couple of lads fishing we needed them to close their car front door for us to get past along the track! There was a range of common dragonflies flying and a medium-sized fritillary found by Kate proved interesting and there was a question of whether it could be twin-spot. When we looked at the photos we could see that in fact it was an aberrant marbled fritillary with a very thick bar in the middle of the forewing and no sign of the marginal twin-spots on the under wing. Below the dam there was a large male silver-washed fritillary zooming about and a little group of pristine wood whites puddling on some mud. By now it was definitely time to go back to Mauzac after a busy and productive day in the field. Day 7: Friday 19 June Everyone said there goodbyes and thanks to Amanda at the hotel (who kindly provided us all with packed lunches) and we loaded the bus for the relatively short journey to Bergerac. Angela, Kate and Jim disembarked at the airport for their early flight and we all had time to say a quick goodbye at the drop-off point before heading off to Faux Plateau with the rest of the group. We had had a quick vote in the bus and decided on some different landscape and a bit of birding rather than explore in the Bergerac forest in rather cool, cloudy conditions when butterflies were unlikely to be very active. We stopped near Saint-Aubin-de-Lanquais for a short walk along a farm track. Whitethroat and melodious warbler were singing and there was a male stonechat up on a wire. A woodlark on another wire showed nicely through the scope and a linnet flew over calling. In the overgrown hedges we also saw and heard corn and cirl bunting. Above the fields a skylark rose singing strongly. To the south a couple of pale small falcon-like birds appeared, flying strongly or gliding on wings held in a V these were the local blackwinged kites, a species now well established on the plateau. They perched briefly in tree and we could have a good look at them through the scope. We also watched a black kite, and even better a majestic short-toed eagle that drifted over above us. There was a roe deer in the fields and a common wall lizard

7 near the track. As the sun started to shine we saw several butterfly species: small white, common blue, painted lady, marbled white, meadow brown, small heath and speckled wood all common species typical of farmland areas locally. Back at the minibus we ate our picnic lunches and all agreed that a visit to the Faux Plateau had been a good idea. For our last stop we crossed to the other side of the village for a short walk down another farm track. Birds of prey were perhaps even better here with another black-winged kite, kestrel, sparrowhawk, buzzard, around half a dozen black kites and finally a goshawk flying strongly towards the north and quite low. Further on we disturbed a family party of stonechats as we walked to a rise in the track by a small orchard. In a tall oak beside the track a yellowhammer was singing a lovely summer sound. We scanned the fields around and about for a final look and I was pleasantly surprised to see a female woodchat shrike. This is now a scarce species in Dordogne though there is usually a pair somewhere on the Faux Plateau let s hope they are successful this summer and return again next year. We all had good views of this attractive bird through the scope and then we had to return to the bus to get to the airport for the Ryanair flight. At the airport we unloaded the bus and said our goodbyes after another butterfly week in Dordogne rich in species and good humour.

8 SPECIES RECORDED BIRDS 1. Greylag goose Anser anser 2. Mute swan Cygnus olor 3. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos 4. Grey heron Ardea cinerea 5. Little egret Egretta garzetta 6. Great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo 7. Black-winged kite Elanius caeruleus 8. Black kite Milvus migrans 9. Short-toe (snake) eagle Circaetus gallicus 10. Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus 11. Northern goshawk Accipiter gentilis 12. Common (Eurasian) buzzard Buteo buteo 13. Common (Eurasian) kestrel Falco tinnunculus 14. Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus 15. Common moorhen Gallinula chloropus 16. Black-headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus 17. Rock Dove (feral pigeon) Columba livia 18. (Common) wood pigeon Columba palumbus 19. European turtle dove Streptopelia turtur 20. Eurasian collared dove Streptopelia decaocto 21. Common (Eurasian) cuckoo Cuculus canorus 22. Tawny owl Strix aluco 23. Common swift apus apus 24. Common kingfisher Alcedo atthis 25. Middle spotted woodpecker Dendrocopus medius 26. Great spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major 27. (European) Green Woodpecker Picus viridis 28. Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator 29. Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus 30. Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius 31. Eurasian (Common) Magpie Pica pica 32. Western Jackdaw Corvus monedula 33. Carrion Crow Corvus corone 34. (European) Crested Tit Parus cristatus 35. Great Tit Parus major 36. Blue Tit Parus caeruleus 37. Wood Lark Lullula arborea 38. (Eurasian) Sky Lark Alauda arvensis 39. (European) Sand Martin Riparia riparia 40. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica 41. Eurasian crag martin Hirundo rupestris 42. Common house martin Delichon urbicum 43. Cetti s warbler Cettia cetti 44. Long-tailed (bush) tit Aegithalos caudatus 45. Common chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita 46. Western Bonelli s warbler Phylloscopus bonelli 47. (Eurasian) reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus 48. Melodious warbler Hippolais polyglotta 49. Eurasian blackcap Sylvia atricapilla

9 50. Common whitethroat Sylvia communis 51. Firecrest Regulus ignicapillus 52. (Winter) wren Troglodytes troglodytes 53. Eurasian nuthatch Sitta europaea 54. Short-toed treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla 55. Common (European) starling Sturnus vulgaris 56. Common (Eurasian) blackbird Turdus merula 57. Song thrush Turdus philomelos 58. Mistle thrush Turdus viscivorus 59. European robin Erithacus rubecula 60. Common nightingale Luscinia megarynchus 61. Black redstart Phoenicurus ochuros 62. European stonechat Saxicola torquata 63. Spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata 64. House sparrow Passer domesticus 65. Hedge accentor (Dunnock) Prunelle modularis 66. White wagtail Motacilla alba alba 67. Tree pipit Anthus pratensis 68. Common chaffinch Fringilla coelebs 69. European serin Serinus serinus 70. European greenfinch Carduelis chloris 71. European goldfinch Carduelis carduelis 72. Common linnet Carduelis cannabina 73. Corn bunting Emberiza calandra 74. Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella 75. Cirl bunting Emberiza cirlus BUTTERFLIES 1. Swallowtail Papilio machaon 2. Black-veined white Aporia crataegi 3. Large white Pieris brassicae 4. Small white Artogeia rapae 5. Southern small white Artogeia manii 6. Green-veined white Artogeia napi 7. Clouded yellow Colias croceus 8. Berger's clouded yellow Colias australis 9. Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni 10. Cleopatra Gonepteryx cleopatra 11. Wood white Leptidea sinapis 12. Sloe hairstreak Nordmannia acaciae 13. Ilex hairstreak Nordmannia ilicis 14. Blue-spot hairstreak Satyrium spini 15. Small copper Lycaena phlaeas 16. Large copper Lycaena dispar 17. Long-tailed blue Lampides boeticus 18. Small blue Cupido minimus 19. Short-tailed blue Cupido argiades 20. Provençal short-tailed blue Cupido alcetas 21. Holly blue Celastrina argiolus 22. Escher s blue Agrodiaetus escheri 23. Adonis blue Lysandra bellargus 24. Common blue Polyommatus icarus

10 25. White admiral Limenitis camilla 26. Southern white admiral Limenitis reducta 27. Red admiral Vanessa atalanta 28. Painted lady Vanessa cardui 29. Comma Polygonia c-album 30. Silver-washed dritillary Argynnis paphia 31. Dark Green fritillary Mesoacidalia aglaja 32. High Brown fritillary Fabriciana adippe 33. Queen of Spain fritillary Issoria lathiona 34. Marbled fritillary Brenthis daphne 35. Weaver s fritillary Boloria dia 36. Glanville fritillary Melitaea cinxa 37. Knapweed fritillary Melitaea phoebe 38. Spotted fritillary Melitaea didyma 39. Heath fritillary Metitaea athalia 40. Marbled white Melanargia galthea 41. Woodland grayling Hipparchia fagi 42. Grayling Hipparchia semele 43. Great sooty satyr Satyrus ferula 44. Great banded grayling Brintesia circe 45. Meadow brown Maniola jurtina 46. Ringlet Aphantopus hyperanthus 47. Small heath Coenonympha pamphilius 48. Pearly heath Coenonympha arcania 49. False ringlet Coenonympha oedippus 50. Speckled wood Pararge aegeria 51. Wall brown Lasiommata megera 52. Woodland brown Lopinga achine 53. Red-underwing skipper Spialia sertorius 54. Safflower skipper Pyrgus carthami 55. Mallow skipper Carcharodus alceae 56. Lulworth skipper Thymelicus acteon 57. Essex skipper Thymelicus lineola 58. Small skipper Thymelicus flavus 59. Large skipper Ochlodes verna DRAGONFLIES 1. Black-tailed skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum 2. Keeled skimmer Orthetrum coerulescens 3. Four-spotted chaser Libellula quadrimaculata 4. Broad-bodied chaser Libellula depressa 5. Blue (Scarce) chaser Libellula fulva 6. Blue emperor Anax imperator 7. Goldenring Cordulegaster boltonii 8. Small pincertail Onychogomphus forcipatus 9. Large pincertail Onychogomphus uncatus 10. Broad scarlet Crocothemis erythaea 11. Western demoiselle Calopteryx xanthostoma 12. Copper demoiselle Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis 13. Beautiful demoiselle Calopteryx virgo 14. Orange featherleg Platycnemis acutipennis 15. Blue featherleg Platycnemis pennipes

11 16. White featherleg Platycnemis latipes 17. Azure damselfly Coenagrion puella 18. Southern damselfly Coenagrion mercuriale 19. Common blue damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum 20. Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula