One torn and worn male seen flying low near Patrick's Tree at Knepp this afternoon, possibly the last of the year there. The flight season at Knepp is now in its seventh week, having commenced on June 17th. This demonstrates the extended flight season that larger populations of all butterfly species have.
Provisional transect data from Knepp indicates that this was an 'average' season there, though it would have been as good as 2023 had the weather behaved better.
Here's Patrick's Tree, it's a favoured 'feeder tree' -
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