Help to protect all lepidoptera in our area.
The three counties of Bucks, Berks and Oxfordshire offer a wide diversity of habitats. These include the chalk downland of the Chiltern Hills, areas of ancient woodland, and tracts of heathland that still remain intact in Berkshire.
We are home to forty five species of butterfly. These include the Purple Emperor,  White Admiral and Wood White, three woodland species. We have all five species of hairstreak, including strong colonies of Black Hairstreak and Brown Hairstreak. Other resident species of note are the Duke of Burgundy, Silver Spotted Skipper, Adonis Blue and Silver Studded Blue.
We are also home to many hundreds of species of moth, including the rare Striped Lychnis moth which has one of its strongholds in our area.

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Watching emergence of adult Small Tortoiseshells from the chrysalis stage.

Elm Report by Andrew Brookes, an excellent report on the research he's been doing into "AN EVALUATION OF DISEASE - RESISTANT HYBRID & EXOTIC ELMS as Larval Host Plants for the White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album". March 2006 - Elm Report (10 MB, PDF file). WARNING! This is a very large file, so you may want to "right-click", select "Save Target As ..." and save it to your local disk.

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