Lancashire Butterfly and Day-Flying Moth Sightings

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Date Species Number Site Town Grid Ref. Recorder Comment Image
24 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 1 Hightown Dunes Blundellsands/Hightown SD296028 Pete Kinsella On Coltsfoot.
20 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 1 Heysham Moss Heysham SD423610 Steve Ryder First of the year
24 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 2 Lancashire Coastal Way Morecambe Morecambe SD4460063581 Tom Dunbar Attempting to pair. On Celandine.
24 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 2 Lancashire Coastal Way Morecambe Morecambe SD4460063581 Tom Dunbar Attempting to pair. On Celandine.
20 Mar 2018 Red Admiral 1 Front Garden Morecambe SD452644 Linda
20 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 3 Front Garden Morecambe SD452644 Linda 5292.jpeg
26 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 1 Riverside View Lancaster SD465620 Linda Hartford
25 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 1 Lancaster University Lancaster SD48485751 Adam McVeigh 5298.jpeg
24 Mar 2018 Peacock 1 Back Garden Lancaster SD485620 Richard Evans 5295.jpeg
9 Mar 2018 Red Admiral 1 Worsley Mesnes Wigan SD5702903278 John Gibson First butterfly of 2018. Sunning itself on neighbours' front (...)
14 Mar 2018 Peacock 1 Ewood Bridge Sewage Works Rossendale SD794206 Kevin Lister 1 seen by Andy Young near the sewage works.
28 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 2 Clowbridge Reservoir Rossendale SD827281 Kevin Lister Reported by Andy Young on Rossendale Ornithologists Club (...)
25 Mar 2018 Small Tortoiseshell 1 My Garden Heywood SD845106 Gavin Ashworth
25 Mar 2018 Brimstone 2 Speke Hall N.T. Liverpool SJ418824 Philip Collins during spell of warm sunshine