I'm having to realise that this is not the great Purple Emperor season I predicted, certainly at Knepp.
It may well be that heavy losses of pupae and pupating late larvae occurred during the ten day period of doom and gloom at the start of June. A shame, as larvae had fared incredibly well feeding up in fine weather during the late March to early June period.
Certainly, Emperors were suppressed by heat today, but they tend to become inactive when they aren't in sufficient numbers to wind each other up. They didn't conk out during the heatwave of 2018, because there were so many of them around then...
However, it may be that the flight season is unusually long this year, with a flatter and longer peak, due to the impact of the ten days of cold and gloom in early June...
We will find out, but 2018 is not in danger of being knocked off its perch...
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