Summer's here, as you can tell from the weather! Buddleia bushes are in full flower and providing good shows of butterflies in many areas. The last few species of the year are beginning to emerge now.

Last update: 30 July, 2010

These first sightings are gathered as the butterfly season progresses so as to provide up-to-date information about species emergence. They are not reviewed retrospectively by reference to transect data or distribution records and therefore represent what we believed to be the first report of a species at the time rather than a comprehensive analysis of the actual first dates recorded in a particular year.