Black Hairstreaks

A trip to Ditchling Common today, not to see the London to Brighton Cycle Ride, but to see some Black Hairstreaks that have recently been found there. They were probably introduced to the site, but that was fifty years ago.

 

(We could hear the cycle ride: there must be a limit to the number of times in a day one person can say “well done everybody” to the participants, but it is in the thousands.)