Very few people look for the last Emperor of the year (I move on to Brown Hairstreaks and Emperor larvae), but Lawrence Drummond has been seeing the same territory-faithful male in Hertford Heath, for the last few days. It was there again today.
Also, a battered specimen, sex uncertain, was seen at Knepp today.
The latest sighting this century seems to be from Homefield Wood, Berks, on 21st August 2013 (a 'late' year).
Please note, this Blog continues all year round, as some of us follow the larvae. The larvae I'll be following in the wild this time around will be named after great philosphers (the first 14 will be named after those in Monty Python's Australian philosophers song...)...
Postscript: Purple Emperor seen in Hartshill Country Park, just NW of Nuneaton in the far north of Warwickshire, on 20th August. That's a good record, indicating northerly spread.
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I'm fairly sure there was a Hertfordshire male on the 23rd of August in 2012 , at Northaw.
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