Butterfly Conservation

Coming soon!

What we are doing on the farm to help certain species; 

We have just started talking to Anthony McClusky of the Butterfly Conservation organisation, he will be doing a couple of site visits over the next few months to see what he can find here.

We have just found a potentially new colony of the Northern Brown Argus butterfly, as I found some Common Rock Rose onsite and Anthony on his visit found it had eggs on it. Great start, so we are now discussing how to help this newly found colony to expand its population area.

I have bought some Common Rock Rose seeds from Scotia seeds. I intend to scatter these in suitable areas close to the site as to expand the Rock Roses growing area. While also getting the seeds from the onsite plants and trying to grow these into plugs that I can plant out, later in spring 2025. 

We are borrowing the moth trap very soon and will post pictures of our finds from our house front garden.