hairstreak

IF YOU take a stroll around the Cleveland countryside you might come across a green hairstreak.

Benyamini (1995) suggested that eventual locations of this hairstreak and other rarely collected Lycaenidae might be discovered through detection of certain frequently sympatric and more common indicator species, such as Pyrgus bocchoris trisignatus (Mabille, 1876) (Hesperiidae) and Teriocolias zelia andina Forbes, 1928 (Pieridae).

Edwards (Early Hairstreak) is an infrequently encountered butterfly in the Lycaenidae (Gossamer-wing Butterflies).

The Brown Hairstreak is one of many UK butterflies which suffered a "catastrophic" year in 2012, after one of the wettest years on record.

Density-dependent mating tactics in the grey hairstreak, Strymon melinus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).

It's hard, even for them, at first to identify all our local swallowtails, sulphurs, coppers, elfins, hairstreaks, fritillaries, skippers, duskywings, sootywings, admirals, viceroys, Baltimores, crescent spots, commas, question marks, mourning cloaks, harvesters, painted ladies, satyrs, wood nymphs and dozens of other nectar-sipping, flitting flower-worshippers.

Dark-green fritillaries, skippers and silver studded blue are showing very well on the Great Orme in Llandudno, with various hairstreaks and heaths reported from other sites.

The 'Colour Me Beautiful' programme (July 11 to 17 with up to 30 per cent off) will focus on beautifying skin, hair and nails with different colours and include demos on make-up, nail art and extensions and also hairstreaks.

It recommends key places to spot butterflies, such as Babbs Mill Local Nature Reserve in Solihull, or Baggeridge Country Park, near Wolverhampton, or Grafton Wood in Worcestershire with details of how to get to each place Then it outlines a walk, with a map, explaining the best months to find the butterflies and giving information like: "At the far end of the mound, there is a patch of gorse where green hairstreaks may be seen and, turning left, walk along the grassy slope to find common blues, dingy skippers and day flying moths."

The 52-year-old's tenanted farmalong the Heritage Coast, which he runs with wife Rosamund, is home to voles, owls, choughs, yellowhammers, peregrines, butterflies and an abundance of different types of moth from white-- letter hairstreaks to dingy skippers.

COMMON NAMES: Gossamer-winged butterflies, harvesters, coppers, hairstreaks, blues

Another interesting phenomenon that can be applied to the Charaxidae of the New World is that some species present "Niche Segregations", as demonstrated by PRIETO (2005) and PRIETO & DAHNERS (2006) in detailed studies on Lycaenids (hairstreaks butterflies) that fly over the Western Colombian Mountain Range.

Southern dogfaces, fatal metalmarks, great purple hairstreaks, American snouts, common buckeyes.

* Ashclyst Forest, Devon ( about to teem with White Admirals, Silver-Washed Fritillaries, Purple Hairstreaks

Provide larval-food plants for the butterflies common to your area: milkweed for monarchs, fennel for anise swallowtail, and buckwheat for hairstreaks. Add birdhouses, and set out piles of nesting material for birds: pine needles and small pieces of string.