{"id":11936,"date":"2025-07-01T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:04:59","slug":"butterflies-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/butterflies-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies: July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Wednesday 30th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The BMS Transect on the Estate produced 237 butterflies of 14 species including ten Walls. Another eight Walls were on RSPB Worth marshes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Monday 28th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Seven Clouded Yellows were on New Downs and one on the Estate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Friday 25th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After a week of mostly wet weather there was decent activity on the Estate today. Five Walls were taking advantage of the nice conditions and there were over a hundred Peacock caterpillars by the Haven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Thursday 17th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>SWALLOWTAIL<\/strong><\/span> was seen on Prince's Beach in the afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Thursday 10th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On RSPB Worth Marshes there were two Commas, ten Red Admirals, ten Peacocks, six Wall Browns, and a Brimstone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Wednesday 9th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There were 511 Butterflies recording on a BMS Transect of the Estate with nearly half being Gatekeeper. 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