fritillary

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• I counted half a dozen chrysalises outside this morning, and those caterpillars may take months to complete the metamorphosis because of the cold weather, but because of the warm, cozy conditions this one's found, I expect it to emerge as a beautiful Gulf fritillary butterfly sometime within the next two weeks. Archive 2009-12-01
• There are now believed to be only 12 places in the country where the fritillary thrives, and Cricklade North Meadow has the highest proportion of the blooms.
• This year we have a white fritillary as well as the more usual purple ones.
• The reserve is also home to a large number of butterfly species including green hairsteak, dingy skipper and dark green fritillary.
• The marsh fritillary was once common across Britain and Europe, but has been in sharp decline over the past century because of loss of habitat.
• For example, wild chamomile is now lost from 23 of the counties where it grew wild, and the native fritillary is now found in an area only one quarter of its previous size.
• In 1990, Pellmyr and his colleagues reported that fritillary butterflies seek the scent of only one form, probably because of its irresistible methyl anthranilate and isoeugenol.
• The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
• A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
• Variegated fritillary and common buckeye butterflies that the researchers captured, marked, and released in the central patch proved two to four times as likely to show up in connected patches as in unconnected ones.