Grizzled Skipper
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Bison Hill, Beds.
16 May 2014
Small photograph of a Grizzled Skipper
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Woodwalton Marsh, Cambs.
3 June 2011
Small photograph of a Grizzled Skipper
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Woodwalton Marsh, Cambs.
3 June 2011
Small photograph of a Grizzled Skipper
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Woodwalton Marsh, Cambs.
3 June 2011
Grizzled Skipper
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Bison Hill, Beds.
9 June 2013

The Grizzled Skipper, Pyrgus malvae

This species is not local to the Yeldham area. It is reported from the Langdon Hills near Basildon in Essex, and from Monks Wood and Woodwalton Marsh in Cambridgeshire.

There is usually only one brood per year, in a year with an early spring emergence there can be a second brood. The Butterfly over-winters as a chysalis in a web of silk attached to vegetation. Food plants include Creeping Cinquefoil, Dog Roses and Brambles.

Internal links: Home . Butterfly list . Main Gallery . Bison Hill . Woodwalton Marsh

External links to Grizzled Skipper pages at: British Butterflies by Steven Cheshire . UK Butterflies by Peter Eeles
Search menu at Cockayne database for forms and aberrations

Personal sightings:

2 June 2011. Woodwalton Marsh. 2 Grizzled Skippers.
3 June 2011. Woodwalton Marsh. 4 Grizzled Skippers.
9 June 2013. Bison Hill, Whipsnade. 1 Grizzled Skipper.
16 May 2014. Bison Hill, Whipsnade. 2 Grizzled Skippers.

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