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August 2022

  • Clouded Yellow - 1st, Strete Gate (Dawn Powell)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Clouded Yellow; Brimstone; Common Blue; Red Admiral; Comma; Peacock; Small Tortoiseshell; Silver-washed Fritillary;  Meadow Brown; Ringlet; Gatekeeper - 1st, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 1st, S Molton (Gary Watson) - First sighting!
  • Common Blue; Brown Argus; Wall; Grayling; Five-spot Burnet Moth - 1st, Braunton Burrows (Vincent Webb)
  • Jersey Tiger - 1st, Garden, Totnes (Martin Quinn)
  • Jersey Tiger  - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, House & Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Sm Copper, Grayling - 2nd, Lyford (Rob Bogue)
  • Clouded Yellow; Brown Hairstreak - 2nd, Shillingford St George (Peter Lovell)
  • Sm Skipper; Holly Blue; Painted Lady; Speckled Wood - 4th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Jersey Tiger - 4th, Garden, Totnes (Martin Quinn)
  • Painted Lady - 4th, Preston Down (Dave Holloway)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 5th, Preston Down (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Wood White - 6th, Branscombe (Roy Harrison)
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 7th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Clouded Yellow - 7th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Painted Lady; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 8th, Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Purple Hairstreak - 8th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Lg White; Clouded Yellow*; Holly Blue; Painted Lady; Wall - 8th, Wembury Pt (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Sm White; Sm Tortoiseshell; Wall; Meadow Brown   - 9th, Bonehill Rocks (Rob Bogue)
  • Grayling - 9th, Budleigh Salterton (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Clouded Yellow; Common Blue; Brown Argus; Wall - 9th, Mortehoe (Stewart Beer)

July 2022

  • White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary; Ringlet*; Meadow Brown - 2nd, Ashclyst Forest (Michael Hughs-Jones) - *Photo
  • Marbled White - 3rd, Sampford Peverell (Michael Hughs-Jones) - Photos
  • Lg Skipper*; Green-veined White; Marbled White*; Ringlet - 3rd, Teigngrace Meadow (John Fiske) - *Photos
  • Purple Hairstreak; Silver-washed Fritillary - 9th, RHS Rosemoor (Gary Watson)
  • Lg White; Brimstone; Purple Hairstreak; Painted Lady; Silver-washed Fritillary; Meadow Brown; Ringlet - 9th, Cycle Route, Yelverton (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Scallop Shell Mooth - 11th, Garden, Paignton (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Sm Skipper; Lg White; Sm White; White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Ringlet; Scarlet Tiger Moth - 12th, Ashclyst Forest (Stewart Beer)
  • Jersey Tiger - 13th, Garden Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Brimstone; Purple Hairstreak; Red Admiral; White Admiral; Peacock; Comma; Silver-washed Fritillary; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper - 15th, Stoke Woods, Exeter (Rob Bogue & Dennis Kallmer)
  • Sm Skipper; Lg White; Sm White; Clouded Yellow*; Red Admiral; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Cinabar Moth Larvae - 16th, Decoy, Newton Abbot (John Fiske) - *Photo
  • Jersey Tiger - 18th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Clouded Yellow - 18th, Southdown Fm, Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow ("helice form") -19th, Garden, Paignton (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Common Blue; Brown Argus*; Sm Tortoiseshell; Meadow Brown - 24th, Public Footpath between Decoy CP & The Priory, Abbotskerswell (John Fiske) - *Photo
  • Brimstone*; Sm Copper*; Common Blue*; Brown Argus; Peacock*; Wall*; Gatekeeper*; Meadow Brown - 26th, Public Footpath between Decoy CP & The Priory, Abbotskerswell (Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Clouded Yellow  ("helice" form) - 27th, Garden, Harleston, Slapton (Rob Macklin)
  • Six-belted Clearwing - 28th, Berry Head (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Common Blue; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary* - 28th, Dunsford Meadow (Nikki Gardner) - 2nd Brood
  • Clouded Yellow - 28th, Southdown Fm, Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Jersey Tiger Moth - 28th, Front of the House, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Sm Copper; Comma; Peacock; Gatekeeper; Ringlet* - 29th, Garden, Paiignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *Photo
  • Clouded Yellow; Silver-washed Fritillary - 29th, Budleigh Salterton (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Lg White; Sm White; Brimstone; Sm Copper; Holly Blue; Comma; Peacock; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Silver-washed Fritillary; Ringlet; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Speckled Wood - 29th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Clouded Yellow - 29th, Garden, Colaton Raleigh (Chris Frame)
  • Wall - 29th, Meldon Hill, Chagford (Celia Tanner)
  • Brimstone; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Peacock; Painted Lady; Silver-washed Fritillary - 29th, RHS Rosemoor (Vincent Webb)
  • Jersey Tiger - 30th, Collins Cross Allotments E Budleigh (Chris Frame)
  • Lg White; Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper; Holly Blue; Common Blue; Gatekeeper  - 30th, Mount Wise (Dave Gregory)

  June 2022

  • Heath Fritillary*; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 1st, Lydford Old Railway BC NR (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • Dark Green Fritillary; Meadow Brown - 2nd, Heddons Mouth (David Jenner)
  • Sm Copper*; Marsh Fritillary*; Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary - 2nd, Challacombe Farm (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • High Brown Fritillary - 6th, Heddon's Mouth (Karen Sims) - First sighting!
  • Lg Skipper; Meadow Brown - 7th, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • High Brown Fritillary - 7th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Lg Skipper; Common Blue; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Painted Lady*; Meadow* Brown; Five-spot Burnett Moth - 9th, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *Photos
  • Green Hairstreak*; High Brown Fritillary*; Dark Green Fritillary; Sm Heath; Yellow-barred Longhorn Moth* - 10th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • Sm Skipper*; Common Blue, Chimney Sweeper Moth - 10th, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting! - *Photo
  • Silver Studded Blue - 11th, Bovey Heath (David Turrell) -  First sighting! -  Photos
  • Heath Fritillary*; Sm Tortoiseshell; Speckled Wood; Meadow Brown - 11th, Lydford Old Railway BC NR (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Privet Hawk-moth -12th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Marbled White - 12th, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - First sighting!
  • Privet Hawk-moth -12th, Garden, Paignton (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Brimstone; Common Blue; Marbled White; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood - 14th, Nightingale Pk, Torquay (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Lg Skipper; Brimstone; Lg White; Sm Copper; Green Hairstreak; Common Blue; Silver-studded Blue**; Peacock; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Dark Green Fritillary; Grayling* **; Gatekeeper*; Meadow Brown; Sm Heath; Speckled Wood  - 15th, Bolt Hd (Dennis Kallmer) - *First sightings! - **Photos
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 15th, Central Park, Plymouth (Ian Teague) - First sighting! - NB This is the earliest record for Devon.
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 17th, Central Park, Plymouth (Ian Teague)
  • Lg Skipper; Green Hairstreak; Red Admiral; Dark Green Fritillary; Marbled White; Grayling; Gatekeeper; Sm Heath; Speckled Wood - 16th, W Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Silver-studded Blue - 17th, Woodbury Common (David Turrell) - Photo
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 17th, Hisley Woods, Bovey Valley (David Gregory)
  • Lg Skipper**; Common Blue; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Ringlet*; Meradow Brown; Speckled Wood  - 17th, Haldon Forest (John Fiske) - *First sighting
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 18th, Cycle Route, Laira Bridge, Plymouth (David Gregory) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Lg White; Common Blue; Red Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary*; Marbled White; Meadow Brown; 5-spotted Burnett Moth - 20th, Birchan Valley LNR (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting!
  • White Admiral - 21st, Bovey Straights Plantation (David Turrell) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Sm White; Brimstone; Silver-washed Fritillary; White Admiral; Meadow Brown - 22nd, Bovey Woods (Dave Gregory)
  • White-letter Hairstreak; Comma; Speckled Wood - 22nd, Oreston (Dave Gregory)
  • Sm Skipper; White Admiral; Painted Lady; Silver-washed Fritillary; Ringlet  - 22nd, Heathfield Great Plantation (David Cope)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary; White Admiral; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood; Ringlet; Meadow Brown - 22nd, Ashclyst Forest (John Fiske)
  • Lg Skipper; Brimstone; Holly Blue; Red Admiral; White Admiral; Painted Lady; High Brown Fritillary; Dark Green Fritillary; Silver-washed Fritillary; Marbled White; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood - 22nd, Newbridge - Aish Tor (Rob Bogue)
  • White Admiral - 22nd & 23rd, Bovey Straights Plantation (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Clouded Yellow - 23rd, Lydford Forest (Rob Bogue)
  • Purple Hairstreak - 27th, Andrew's Wood Loddiswell (Kev & Jacki Solman) - First sighting!
  • Silver-washed Fritillary; Scarlet Tiger Moth* - 27th, Berry Pomeroy Castle (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Ringlet - 29th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Peacock - 30th, Bickington (Stewart Beer) - Photo
 

May 2022
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 4th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Common Blue - 5th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory)
  • Dingy Skipper*; Wood White*; Green-veined White; Orange-tip; Brimstone*; Peacock; Speckled Wood - 5th, Meeth Quarry DWT NR (Dennis Kallmer & Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 5th, Ramshorn Down (Dennis Kallmer & Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Grizzled Skipper - 5th, Dainton Common (Dennis Kallmer & Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Green-veined White*; Wood White*; Brimstone; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 5th, Cookworthy (Dave & Hilary Phillips) - *Photos
  • Green-veined White; Orange-tip; Common Blue*; Peacock - 6th, Naptor, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - *Photo
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary**; Sm Heath* - 7th, Roborugh Down (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *First sighting! - **Photos
  • Orange-tip; Common Blue; Green Hairstreak; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Wall; Speckled Wood - 10th, Prawle Pt (Steve Millersbank)
  • Sm White; Brimstone; Red Admiral; Peacock; Pearl Bordered Fritillary; Wall; Sm Heath; Garden Tiger Larva*; Drinker Moth Larva - 10th, Hartland Quay (Stewart Beer) - *Photo
  • Brimstone; Green Hairstreak*; Speckled Wood - 10th, Roborough Common (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Sm Copper; Common Blue; Brown Argus* - 13th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Dennis Kallmer) - *Photo
  • Painted Lady - 16th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Painted Lady -17th, Abbotskerswell (Amy Macleod) - Photo
  • Meadow Brown - 18th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Phil Chambers) - First sighting!
  • Lg Skipper - 18th, Southole (Fred Rayner) - First sighting!
  • Clouded Yellow - 19th, Shell Top, Dartmoor (Paul Turner) - First sighting!
  • Painted Lady; Marsh Fritillary*; Sm Heath - 19th, Emsworthy Mire DWT NR (Dennis Kallmer & Dave Holloway) - *First sighting! - *Photo
  • Marsh Fritillary - 19th, R Tavy, Brousentor, Nr Mary Tavy (Dave Gregory) - First sighting!
  • Marsh Fritillary - 19th, Challacombe Farm (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Marsh Fritillary - 21st, Volehouse Moor (Stewart Beer)
  • Green-veined White; Brimstone; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Heath Fritillary*; Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Speckled Wood - 22nd, Lydford Forest (Rob Bogue) - *First sighting!
  • Sm Copper; Common Blue; Sm Blue*; Wall* - 22nd, Walls Hill (Dennis Kallmer & Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 22nd, East Prawle (Pat Mayer) - First sighting! - Photos 
  • Dingy Skipper; Lg Skipper; Wood White; Common Blue; Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 24th, Seaton (undercliff) (Rob Bogue)
  • Common Blue*; Brown Argus; Sm Copper*  - 24th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Heath Fritillary*; Painted Lady - 28th, Lydford Old Railway BC Reserve (Andy Brown) - *Photos
  • Clouded Yellow - 30th, Prawle Pt (Pat Mayer)

 

April 2022

  • Holly Blue - 7th, Harleston, Slapton (Rob Macklin)
  • Orange-tip - 9th, Buckfast (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Lg White; Brimstone; Sm Tortoiseshell; Comma; Peacock; Speckled Wood - 9th, Great Parks/Naptor, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Green-veined White - 9th, Southdown Valley, Soar (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!
  • Sm White; Orange-tip; Brimstone; Holly Blue; Peacock; Comma - 14th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory)
  • Sm Copper; Wall -15th, Bolberry Down (Daniel Brown) - Photos
  • Brimstone; Holly Blue; Green Hairstreak*; Pearl-bordered Fritillary* - 16th, Aish Tor (David Turrel) - *First sightings! - Photos
  • Sm White; Green-veined White; Orange-tip*; Brimstone - 16th, The Garden House, Crapstone (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Orange-tip; Brimstone; Holly Blue; Sm Tortoiseshell; Comma*; Peacock*; Speckled Wood - 16th, Great Parks/Naptor, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Pearl-borderd Fritillary - 17th, Ramshorne Down (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Orange-tip; Holly Blue - 18th, Ford Pk Cemetery, Plymouth (Greg Bradbury)
  • Wood White - 18th, Hooken Cliffs (Matt Collis) - First sighting!
  • Grizzled Skipper - 19th, Trenchford Reservoir (John Ricket) - First sighting!
  • Grizzled Skipper*; Green-veined White; Orange-tip; Holly Blue* - 20th, Dainton Common (Dave Gregory)  - *Photos
  • Green Hairstreak*; Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 21st, Ramshorn Down (Dennis Kallmer) - *Photo
  • Grizzled Skipper - 21st, Miltor Mator Common (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Orange-tip; Sm Copper; Common Blue*; Brown Argus* - 26th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Phil Chambers) - *First sightings!
  • Sm Blue - 26th, Quarry, Berry Head (Dave Holloway) - First sighting! - Photos
  • Wall - 26th, Quarry, Berry Head (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Brimstone; Orange-tip; Sm Tortoiseshell; Peacock; Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Speckled Wood - 26th, Lydford Forest (Rob Bogue)
  • Holly Blue; Green Hairstreak; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary* - 29th, Bolt Head & Starehole Valley (Rob Macklin) - *First sighting!
  • Common Blue; Holly Blue; Sm Copper; Peacock; Wall - 29th, Morte Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Orange-tip; Sm Copper; Holly Blue; Red Admiral; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Wall; Speckled Wood - 29th, Prawle Pt (Peter Shaw)
  • Grizzled Skipper - 29th, Miltor Mator (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photos
  • Dingy Skipper - 29th, Teigngrace Meadow (Kev & Jacki Solman)

 

March 2022

  • Red Admiral - 4th, Exeter College (James Early)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 5th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Brimstone; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell; Comma - 14th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory)
  • Brimstone; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell; Red Admiral - 14th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Peacock; Red Admiral - 18th, Hackney Marsh, Newton Abbot (Sally Otley)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell; Peacock - 20th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Sm White*; Peacock - 22nd, Garden Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *First sighting! - *Photo
  • Speckled Wood - 22nd, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson) - First Sighting!
  • Holly Blue*; Sm Tortoiseshell; Peacock; Red Admiral - 24th, Wembury Pt (Dave & Lynn Gregory) - *First sighting!
  • Comma - 23rd, Soar Mill Valley (Rob Macklin)
  • Orange-tip - 24th, Harleston, Slapton (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!
  • Sm White - 24th, Exmouth (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Speckled Wood - 25th, E Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Speckled Wood - 25th, Garden, Budleigh Salterton (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Comma - 25th, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Sm White; Red Admiral; Comma; Sm Tortoiseshell; Speckled Wood - 25th, The Garden House, Crapstone (Dave Gregory)
  • Sm Copper - 25th, Froward Pt (Amanda Hunter) - First sighting!
  • Orange-tip; Speckled Wood - 25th, Southole, Hartland (Fred Rayner)
  • Brimstone - 26th, Wolborough Hill, Newton Abbot (John Fiske)
  • Wall - 26th, Stoke Pt (Sylvia Tucker) - First sighting!
  • Speckled Wood - 26th, Saltram, Plymouth (Stuart Green)
  • Comma; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell - 27th, Wolborough Hill, Newton Abbot (John Fiske)
  • Lg White*; Sm White; Brimstone; Peacock; Comma - 27th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting! - *Photo
  • Lg White; Sm Copper - 27th, Gara Rock (Mike Brooking)
  • Speckled Wood - 30th, Decoy, Newton Abbot (John Fiske) - Photo
  • Orange-tip - 30th, Garden, Trusham (Gary Watson)
 

February 2022

  • Brimstone*; Peacock - 27th, Plymbridge Woods (Robert Bogue) - *First sighting!

January 2022

  • Red Admiral - 5th, Garden, Bovey Tracey (Pete Hurst) - First sighting!
  • Red Admiral -11th, Home Farm Marsh, Yelland (Stewart Beer)
  • Red Admiral - 12th, Lydford (Robert Bogue)
  • Red Admiral; Peacock* - 12th, E Soar (Kev & JackieSolman) - *First sighting!
  • Comma - 12th, Woolwell, Plymouth (Dave Gibbon) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Peacock - 12th, Bovey Heathfield DWT NR (Amy Macleod) - Photo
  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 13th, Umberleigh (Stewart Beer) - First sighting!
  • Red Admiral - 14th, Garden, Exeter (Yvonne Wood)
  • Red Admiral; Peacock - 14th, Woolwell, Plymouth (Dave Gibbon)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 17th, Birch Valley LNR (Dave Gregory)

 

December 2021

  • Red Admiral - 2nd, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Peacock - 16th, Beaworthy (Sally Brown & David Baker)
  • Red Admiral - 19th, Lydford (Robert Bogue)
  • Red Admiral - 21st, Lydford (Robert Bogue)

November 2021

  • Red Admiral; Painted Lady - 2nd, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Comma; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 7th, Berry Hd (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer)
  • Brimstone - 10th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm White - 12th, Garden, Sidmouth (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Brimstone; Red Admiral - 14th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Brimstone; Comma - 14th, Chudleigh Knighton Heath (Pete Hurst, Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Speckled Wood - 14th, Garden, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Holly Blue - 15th, Exeter (Andrew Rhodes) - NB This is the second latest record for Devon, the latest being, 16.11.16.
  • Speckled Wood - 17th, Dawlish (Pete Hurst)
  • Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 18th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)

 

October 2021

  • Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper; Red Admiral - 1st, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Painted Lady - 10th, Garden, Tavistock (Martin Quinn)
  • Comma - 10th, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Lg White; Clouded Yellow; Red Admiral  - 11th, Exmouth (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Wall - 14th, Middle Soar (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Lg White; Common Blue* - 17th, Mount Wise Pk, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 26th, Kingsbridge (Mike Davis)

September 2021

  • Brown Hairstreak - 4th, Old Football Field, Chudleigh Heath (Dave Gregory)
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 4th, Clennon Lakes, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Lg White; Sm White; Brimstone; Red Admiral; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood  - 4th, Garden, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 12th, Garden, Colyton (Roger Laughton)
  • Common Blue; Red Admiral; Comma; Silver-washed Fritillary -14th, Clennon Lakes, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Holly Blue; Brown Hairstreak*; Speckled Wood - 15th, Chudleigh Heath (Dave Gregory) - *Photos
  • Clouded Yellow - 16th, Jubilee Field, Budleigh Salterton (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper; Comma; Red Admiral; Painted Lady; Wall; Speckled Wood; Vapourer Moth - 20th, Jubilee Field, Budleigh Salterton (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Convolvulus Hawk-moth - 22nd, Garden, Paignton (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Sm White; Holly Blue; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Sm Copper; Comma; Speckled Wood - 22nd, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 25th, Garden, Kingsbridge (Lee Yates)

August 2021

  • Brown Hairstreak - 1st, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Brimstone; Purple Hairstreak; Red Admiral; Small Tortoiseshell; Peacock; Silver-washed Fritillary; Ringlet; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Speckled Wood - 8th, Lydford Village (Rob Bogue)
  • Dingy Skipper; Wood White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Clouded Yellow; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Gatekeeper; Meadow Brown - 10th, Seaton (Rob Bogue)
  • Grayling - 10th, Jubilee Field, Budleigh Salterton (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 11th, Bystock Fish Ponds (Andrew Rhodes)
  • Wood White - 11th, Meeth Quarry DWT NR (Adrian Cox)
  • Jersey Tiger - 14th, Aveton Gifford (Jane Cox)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 16th, Preston Down (Kev & Jackie Solman) - Photos
  • Lg Skipper; Lg White; Brimstone; Brown Hairstreak*; Silver-washed Fritillary; Meadow Brown - 18th, Chudleigh Knighton Heath DWT NR (Dave Gregory) - *Photos
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 25th, Blackpool Mill, Hartlannd Abbey (Gary Watson)
  • Chalkhill Blue - 25th, Garden, Teignmouth (Chris Gladman) - Photo  NB This species does not usually occur in Devon. The individual was probably blown along the coast from Portland Bill, Dorset.
  • Sm White; Red Admiral; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell; Wall - 26th, Brent Tor (Rob Bogue)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 26th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Common Blue*; Holly Blue*; Sm Copper*; Wall - 27th, Orley Common (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • Lg White; Sm White; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Heath; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood - 27th, Welcombe (Rob Bogue)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Brown Hairstreak; Red Admiral; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Gatekeeper; Speckled Wood - 28th, S Molton (Grahame Preston)
  • Brown Hairsreak -29th, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Peacoock; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Heath; Meadow Brown; Wall; Speckled Wood - 29th, Speke's Mill Mouth (Rob Bogue)
  • Brown Argus - 31st, Home Farm Marsh, Fremington (Jean & Mike Bowden) - Photo
 
 

July 2021

  • Jersey Tiger Moth - 1st, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - First sighting!
  • Jersey Tiger Moth - 1st, Garden, Teignmouth (Sally Otley) - First sighting!
  • Silver-studded Blue* **; Dark Green Fritillary; Gatekeeper* **; Grayling* - 2nd, Bolt Hd (David Turrell) - *First sightings! - **Photos 
  • Lg Skipper*; White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary; Ringlet*; Meadow Brown - 2nd, Bovey Valley (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • Lg Skipper*; Small Skipper*; Ringlet - 2nd, Heathfield Great Plantation (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • White Admiral - 6th, Heathfield Great Plantation (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Sm Copper; Silver-studded Blue*; Dark Green Fritillary; Marbled White; Grayling*; Gatekeeper - 8th, Bolt Head (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) -*Photos
  • Sm Copper; Silver Studded Blue; Dark Green Fritillary*; Sm Heath; Gatekeeper; Grayling; Marbled White - 8th, E Soar (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Sm Skipper; White-letter Hairstreak; Marbled White; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Ringlet - 10th, Billacombe Green (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 13th, Portlemouth Down & Rickham Common (Michael Brooking) - Photos
  • Red Admiral; High Brown Fritillary*; Dark Green Fritillary*; Ringlet; Sm Heath - 13th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • White Admiral; Red Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary*; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Ringlet - 13th, Rudge & Hisley Woods, Bovey Valley (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photo
  • High Brown Fritillary - 14th, Hisley Wood, Bovey Valley (Amanda Hunter & Mary Irving) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Lg White; Purple Hairstreak; Silver-washed Fritillary; Meadow Brown - 15th, Clearbrook, Dartmoor (Dave Gregory)
  • Purple Hairstreak - 15th, Andrews Wood (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Grayling - 16th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Common Blue; White-letter Hairstreak; Red Admiral; Comma; Dark Green Fritillary*; Marbled White; Meadow Brown; Ringlet - 18th, Billacombe Green (Kev & Jacki Solman) *Photos
  • Silver-studded Blue - 18th, Bovey Heathfield DWT NR (Steph Murphy) - Photo
  • Silver-studded Blue - 21st, Bovey Heathfield DWT NR (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer)
  • White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary* - 21st, Heathfield Great Plantation (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • Swallowtail - 22nd, Berry Head (Jeff Hacon)
  • Swallowtail - 22nd, Berry Head (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photos
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 23rd, Oreston (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Marbled White - 25th, Denbury Down (Lesley Groves)
  • Jersey Tiger - 26th, Garden, Sidmouth (Julia Haddrell)
  • Sycamore Moth Caterpillar  - 28th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Wood White - 28th, Garden, Colyton (Peter Vernon) - Photo
  • Jersey Tiger - 29th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Brown Argus - 29th, nr Parke (John Ricket)
  • White-letter Hairstreak; Silver-washed Fritillary - 29th, Berry Pomeroy Castle (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • White-letter Hairstreak; Silver-washed Fritillary - 31st, Berry Pomeroy Castle (Dave Holloway)

June 2021

  • Marsh Fritillary,  2 - 1st, Dunsden DWT NR (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Marsh Fritillary, 7 - 1st, Volehouse Moor DWT NR (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper*; Common Blue, 27; Painted Lady, 4; Sm Heath, 8; Wall - 1st, Morte Pt (Gary Watson) - *First sighting!
  • Brimstone; Painted Lady, 5; Wall - 1st, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Common Blue, 7; Green Hairstreak; Painted Lady; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 88; Sm Heath, 12 - 3rd, West Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Meadow Brown - 3rd, Southole (Fred Rayner) - First sighting!
  • Heath Fritillary - 3rd, Lydford Old Railway BC NR (David Jenner)
  • Common Blue, 7, Green Hairstreak, 4; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 80; Dark Green Fritillary*; Wall, 6 - 4th, Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Wall, 5 - 4th, Crow Pt (Stewart Beer)
  • Common Blue; Brown Argus, 3 - 4th, Braunton Burrows (Stewart Beer)
  • Lg white; Sm White; Orange-tip; Green Hairstreak; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 5th, Hemerdon Ball, nr Plympton (Paul Turner)
  • Lg White, 2; Orange-tip, 2; Holly Blue; Common Blue, 14; Sm Copper; Speckled wood, 8; Sm Heath, 6; Meadow Brown*, 2 - 6th, Billacombe Green (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *Photo
  • Brimstone; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Green Hairstreak; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 8th, Little Breach BC NR (John Bell)
  • Painted Lady; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 20+; High Brown Fritillary*; Dark Green Fritillary; Sm Heath, 50+ - 7th, Heddon's Mouth (David Jenner) - *First sighting!
  • Marsh Fritillary - 8th, Emsworthy Mire DWT NR (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Lg White; Lg Skipper; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Sm Heath; Meadow Brown; Wall - 9th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Common Blue; Brown Argus; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Sm Heath - 9th, Morte Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Painted Lady; Dark Green Fritillary  - 9th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Heath*; Meadow Brown*; Five-spot Burnet Moth - 12th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory) - *Photos
  • High Brown Fritillary - 13th, Aish Tor (David Turrell)
  • Painted Lady - 14th, Garden, Tavistock (Martin Quinn)
  • Common Blue; Sm Copper; Sm Tortoiseshell; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Dark Green Fritillary; Sm Heath - 15th, E Soar (Dave Gregory)
  • Common Blue; Sm Heath; Meadow Brown; Marbled White* - 19th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting - *Photo
  • Eyed Hawk-moth - 19th, Garden, Paignton (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Common Blue; Painted Lady; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 20th, Bolberry (Chris Caseldine)
  • Lg Skipper*; Common Blue; Sm Tortoiseshell; Marbled White; Meadow Brown - 22nd, Billacombe Green (Kev & Jackie Solman) - *Photo
  • Lg Skipper*; Sm Skipper**; Marbled White; Meadow Brown; Six-spot Burnet Moth - 22nd, Blunts Lane Meadow (Dave Gregory) - *Photos - **First sighting!
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Sm Tortoiseshell; Comma; Red Admiral; Dark Green Fritillary; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Heath Fritillary; Speckled Wood; Meadow Brown - 23rd, Lydford Forest (Rob Bogue)
  • Dark Green Fritillary; Grayling*; Sm Heath - 23rd, Middle Soar (Rob Macklin) - *First sighting!
  • Lg White; Common Blue; Green Hairstreak; Sm Tortoiseshell; High Brown Fritillary; Sm Heath; Meadow Brown - 23rd, Aish Tor (Paul Turner)
  • Six-belted Clearwing - 23rd, Billacombe Meadows (Ian McGinnes) - Photo
  • Brimstone; Green Hairstreak; High Brown Fritillary*; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Heath; Meadow Brown - 24th, Aish Tor (Kev & Jackie Solman) - *Photos
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 25th, Oreston, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - First sighting!
  • Ringlet - 28th, Rudge Wood, Bovey Valley (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photos - First sighting!
  • Purple Hairstreak*; Sm Tortoiseshell; Red Admiral - 28th, Nr Clearbrook, Dartmoor (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting!
  • High Brown Fritillary, 7 - 28th, Aish Tor (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Ringlet - 29th, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Purple Hairstreak; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 29th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 3oth, Ashclyst Forest (David Jenner) - First sighting!
  • White Admiral - 30th, Great Plantation, Heathfield (David Turrell) - First sighting!
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Sm Tortoiseshell; Silver-washed Fritillary*; Ringlet; Meadow Brown - 30th, Lydford Forest (Rob Bogue) - *First sighting!
  • Painted Lady - 30th, Lydford Village (Rob Bogue)
  • Red Admiral; Marbled White; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood - 30th, Orley Common (Dennis Kallmer)
  • White-letter Hairstreak, 5 - 30th, Oreston, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • High Brown Fritillary; Dark Green Fritillary - 30th, Aish Tor (John Golder) - Photo
 

May 2021

  • Grizzled Skipper, 6 - 2nd, Miltor Mator Common (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - Photos
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 6 - 2nd, Aish Tor (Miles Attenborough) - Photos
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 10 - 4th, Aish Tor (Paul Lister) - Photo
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 4 - 4th, Roborough Down (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photos
  • Sm Blue - 6th, Berry Hd (Dennis Kallmer) - First sighting! - Photos
  • Sm Copper; Common Blue*; Sm Heath*, 2; Wall - 7th, Morte Pt (Gary Watson) - *First sightings!
  • Sm Blue, 7 - 7th, Berry Hd (Kev & Jackie Solman)
  • Dingy Skipper, 2 - 7th, Meeth Quarry DWTR (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Sm Copper - 9th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Robert & Ann Bailey)
  • Clouded Yellow; Common Blue; Holly Blue; Wall, 5 - 9th, Walls Hill, Torquay (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Common Blue; Sm Copper; Green Hairstreak; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary*, 20+ - 9th, Prawle Pt (Michael Blamford) - *Photo
  • Common Blue; Green Hairstreak; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 5 - 12th, Middle Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Lg White, 2; Sm White; Brimstone; Common Blue, 2 - 19th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Lg White, Common Blue, 3+; Sm Blue, 6; Sm Tortoiseshell - 19th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Green-veined White, 3; Orange-tip, 2; Brimstone, 3; Marsh Fritillary*, 12 - 26th, Nr Peter Tavy (Dave Gregory) - Photos
  • Heath Fritillary - 26th, Lydford Old Railway BC NR (Mandy Floyd, Herts & Middx BC Branch Member) - First sighting!
  • Wood White, c.15 - 27th, Meeth Quarry DWT NR (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Green Hairstreak, 4; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 10 - 27th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Sm Blue; Wall, 5 - 27th, Walls Hill, Torquay (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Wood White - 28th, Meeth Quarry DWT Res (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer)
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Heath* - 28th, Ramshorn Down (Dave Holloway & Dennis Kallmer) - *Photo
  • Sm Copper, 2 - 30th, Orley Common, Ipplepen (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Grizzled Skipper, 6 - 30th, Trenchford Dam (John Rickett)

 

April 2021

  • Lg White, 2; Sm White; Peacock, 12; Comma, 3 - 1st, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Orange-tip - 2nd, Buckfast (David Turrell) - Photo
  • Holly Blue - 2nd, Furze, nr Chittlehampton (Stewart Beer)
  • Orange-tip - 2nd, Stover (John Fiske)
  • Brimstone - 2nd, Teigngrace (John Fiske)
  • Orange-tip*, 8; Brimstone, 2; Holly Blue; Peacock, 3 - 2nd, Garden House, Crapstone (Dave Gregory) - *Photos
  • Red Admiral - 2nd, Tavistock (Martin Quinn)
  • Orange-tip - 3rd, Garden, Colaton Raleigh (Chris Frame)
  • Holly Blue; Red Admiral; Peacock 3rd, Garden, Teignmouth (Gordon Otley)
  • Green-veined White*; Brimstone; Peacock*; Comma - 4th, Naptor, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Brimstone; Lg White; Sm Tortoiseshell; Red Admiral - 4th, Hennock, Bovey Tracey (Gordon Otley)
  • Green Hairstreak, 3 - 4th, Under Hooken, Branscombe (Karen Woolley) - First sighting!
  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 10th, Bickleigh (Lynn Gregory)
  • Holly Blue*; Red Admiral; Comma* - 12th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *Photos
  • Holly Blue - 14th, Plymouth Hoe (Ian Teague)
  • Orange Tip, 2; Sm Copper*; Comma, 3; Speckled Wood - 15th, Dawlish Warren (Phil Chambers) - *First sighting!
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 2 - 17th, Ramshorn Down (Karen Woolley) - First sighting!
  • Dingy Skipper, 3; Cloude Yellow, 3; Wood White - 18th, Haven Cliff, Axemouth (Karen Woolley)  - All first sightings! - Photos
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 19th, nr Winkleigh & Chulmleigh (Annette Stacey)
  • Painted Lady - 19th, Dawlish (James Today)
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 5 - 20th, Ramshorn Down (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Sm White, 3; Speckled Wood, 3; Wall*, 7 - 20th, Wembury Pt (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting!
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 20th. Portlemouth Down (Michael Brooking) - First sighting!
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 20th. Rickham Common (Michael Brooking) - First sighting!
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 16 - 21st, Aish Tor (David Turrell) - Photos
  • Sm White, 5; Orange-tip, 5; Sm Copper - 22nd, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory)
  • Holly Blue - 24, Bickington Garden (Stewart Beer)
  • Grizzled Skipper, 3 - 23rd, Stoneycombe Copse (Clive Harris) - First sighting!
  • Brimstone*, 2; Holly Blue, 2; Peacock; Pearl-bordered Fritillary*; Speckled Wood - 26th, Yarner Wood NNR (Ian Teague) - *Photos
  • Sm White; Orange-tip; Holly Blue, 2; Sm Tortoiseshell, 2; Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 5; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 20+; Marsh Fritillary*; Wall, 5; Speckled Wood, 5 - 28th, Marslands (Richard Farran) - *First sighting! - *Photo
  • Sm White, 3; Brimstone; Sm Copper* (aberrant forms - caeruleopunctata), 2 - 27th, Plymouth Science Park (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 28th, Kelly Mine, Lustleigh (Nicholas Walter)
  • Grizzled Skipper, 8 - 30th, Miltor Mator Common (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Sm Copper, 4 - 30th, Morte Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Wall, 8 - 30th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)

March 2021

  • Brimstone - 1st, Sidmouth (Ed Dolphin)
  • Painted Lady - 5th, Garden, Dartmouth (Barbara Forey) - Photo
  • Comma; Peacock - 17th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Peacock - 17th, Garden, Paignton (Jane Holloway)
  • Lg White - 17th, Garden, Derriford (Lynn Gregory) - First sighting!
  • Sm White - 22nd, Garden Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - First sighting!
  • Sm White*; Comma, 2 - 22nd, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting! - *Photo
  • Sm Tortoiseshell, 3; Peacock - 24th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm White - 25th, Marsh Mills, Plymouth (Stuart Green)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell; Peacock, 2 - 25th, Saltram Pk, Plymouth (Stuart Green)
  • Comma - 26th, Heasley Mill, North Molton (Stewart Beer)
  • Brimstone - 26th, Colaton Raleigh (Chris Frame)
  • Holly Blue - 29th, Teignmouth (Kevin Rylands) - First sighting!
  • Speckled Wood, 2 - 29th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Speckled Wood; Peacock - 30th, Garden, Newton Abbot (John Fiske)
  • Lg White; Holly Blue - 30th, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Green-veined White*; Orange-tip*; Brimstone; Comma; Peacock - 30th, Garden, Tavistock (Martin Quinn) - *First sightings!
  • Orange-tip - 30th, Garden, Abbotskerswell (Amy Walkden) - First sighting!
  • Orange-tip - 31st, St Giles (Jon Martin)
  • Lg White; Orange-tip; Comma; Peacock* - 31st, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *Photo
  • Orange-tip - 31st, Furze, nr Chittlehampton (Stewart Beer)

February 2021

  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 6th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Brimstone - 22nd, Hollcombe Moor Cross (Jonathan Martin) - First sighting!
  • Peacock; Hummingbird Hawkmoth - 22nd, Garden, Stockwell (Robert Bailey) - First sightings!
  • Speckled Wood - 22nd, Stoke, Plymouth (Martin Quinn) - First sighting!
  • Sm Tortoiseshell; Comma* - 22nd, Lydford (Rob Bogue) - *First sighting!
  • Comma - 26th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Comma, 2; Peacock - 27th, Garden Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Brimstone; Sm Tortoiseshell, 2; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 27th, Cleave Rocks, Okehampton (Rob Bogue)

January 2021

  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 3rd Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Red Admiral - 7th, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Red Admiral - 12th, Nr Blagdon Boatyard, Plymouth (Ian Teague)

 

November 2020

  • Red Admiral - 2nd, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm Copper - 5th, Stoke Rivers, Nr Barnstable (Karen Sims)
  • Red Admiral - 5th, Tavistock (Rob Bogue)
  • Speckled Wood - 23rd, Prawle Pt (Pat Mayer)
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 30th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)

October 2020

  • Painted Lady*; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood; Hummingbird Hawkmoth - 1st, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *Photo
  • Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper; Comma; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 1st, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Clouded Yellow - 6th, Berry Head (Dennis Kallmer & Dave Holloway)
  • Clouded Yellow*; Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper; Comma; Red Admiral; Wall; Speckled Wood - 7th, Berry Hd (Dennis Kallmer) - *Photo
  • Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper; Peacock; Sm Pearl- bordered Fritillary*; Wall - 7th, E Prawle (Lynne Bevan) - *Photo - *NB Though in warmer years Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary can have a second Summer brood, particularly in The West Country, this is a particularly late sighting!
  • Lg White; Sm White; Red Admiral; Comma; Painted Lady - 15th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Comma  - 18th, Garden, Tavistock (Martin Quinn) - Photo
  • Comma; Red Admiral; Hunmmingbird Hawk-moth - 25th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)

September 2020

  • Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper*; Sm Tortoiseshell*; Comma; Painted Lady; Red Admiral*; Meadow Brown - 1st, Clennon Lakes, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Sm Copper - 8th, River Bank, Umberleigh (Stewart Beer)
  • Speckled Wood; Sm Heath - 8th, Roborough Down (Dave Gregory)
  • Lg White, 2; Sm Copper; Sm Tortoiseshell, 5; Red Admiral, 2 - 9th, Bryant's Field Allotments, Barnstable (Srewart Beer)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Clouded Yellow; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Comma; Red Admiral; Meadow Brown; Sm Heath; Speckled Wood - 10th, E Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 13th, Ide, Exeter (Alison Ames)
  • Sm Copper - 13th, Highweek, Newton Abbot (Nichola Cannock)
  • Clifden Nonpareil - 13th, Garden, Colaton Raleigh (Chris Frame) - Photo
  • Lg White; Common Blue; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Wall; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 14th, Berry Hd (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 14th, Kingscott (Stewart Beer)
  • Beautiful Plume; Lg Ranunculus; L-album Wainscot*; Old Lady; Mullein Wave (dark form) - 15th, Garden, Paignton (Dennis Kallmer) - *Photo
  • Lg Yellow Underwing - 15th, Sterridge Valley (Stewart Beer)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 16th, Abbrook, Kingsteignton (Jane Baker) - Photos
  • White Admiral - 17th, Ide (David Land) - NB Interesting late record
  • Brown Hairstreak, 2 - 17th, Torrington Commons (Stewart Beer)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady - 18th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Lg White; Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper; Red Admiral - 21st, Green Combe, Dartmoor (David Land)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Clouded Yellow - 21st, E Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow - 26th, Garden, Colaton Raleigh (Chris & Margaret Frame)
  • Red Admiral; Comma; Speckled Wood; Wall - 27th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Lg White; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Comma; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood - 29th, Braunton Burrows (Stewart Beer)

 

August 2020

 

  • Brown Hairstreak - 1st, Preston Down (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow; Sm Blue; Marbled White; Hummingbird Hawkmoth - 2nd, Berry Head (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Clouded Yellow, 3; Common Blue, 30; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 44 - 3rd, W Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow, 3; Brown Argus*; Sm Copper, 2 - 3rd, Dawlish Warren (Ian Teague) - *Photo
  • Brown Hairstreak, 2 - 3rd, Preston Down (Ian Teague)
  • Brown Hairstreak, 2-4 - 3rd, South Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Clouded Yellow*; Common Blue; Silver-washed Fritillary; Marbled White - 4th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway) - *Photo
  • Jersey Tiger - 5th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Sm White; Common Blue; Holly Blue; Sm Copper; Brown Hairstreak; Comma; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Speckled Wood - 7th, Preston Down (Rob Bogue)
  • Clouded Yellow, 2; Sm Blue, 4; Common Blue; Painted Lady; Wall - 7th, Berry Head (Rob Bogue)
  • Common Blue; Holly Blue; Brown Hairstreak*; Purple Hairstreak; Jersey Tiger - 8th, Preston Down (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Long-tailed Blue - 9th, Seaton (Rob Souter) - Photo - NB Long-tailed Blue is a rare vagrant to the UK, from Europe. However, several occurred at this site last year & were observed mating, so this years sighting is possibly last years progeny.
  • Long-tailed Blue - 9th, Dawlish Warren (Phil Chambers)
  • Purple Hairstreak, 2 - 11th, Hembury Fort (Martin Littlemore) - Photo
  • Long-tailed Blue - 12th, Seaton (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo - NB Long-tailed Blue is a rare vagrant to the UK, from Europe. However, several occurred at this site last year & were observed mating, so this years sighting is possibly last years progeny.
  • Vestal; Dark Spinach - 12th, Garden, Paignton (Dennis Kallmer) - Photos
  • Wood White - 12th, Branscombe (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Lg White, 2; Clouded Yellow, 4; Common Blue, 30+; Holly Blue, 10+; Sm Copper; Wall, 4 - 12th, Wembury Pt (Dave Gregory)
  • Jersey Tiger - 13th, Garden, Combpyne (Gail Beecroft)
  • Clouded Yellow; Painted Lady; Wall - 18th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Sm Tortoiseshell, 8; Red Admiral, 2; Painted Lady; Silver-washed Fritillary, 2 - 22nd, Garden, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Clouded Yellow - 24th, Garden Paignton (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Lg White, 6; Comma, 3; Red Admiral; Gatekeeper, 2; Meadow Brown; Hummingbird Hawkmoth - 26th, Garden Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Painted Lady, 5 - 29th, Berry Head (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Holly Blue; Sm Copper*; Comma, 2; Red Admiral, 2; Sm Tortoiseshell* - 31st, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *Photos
  • Brown Hairstreak, 2 - 31st, Chudleigh Knighton Heath DWT Res (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photo
 

 

 

 

 
 

July 2020

  • Holly Blue - 1st, Instow (Stewart Beer)- 1st, Instow (Stewart Beer)
  • Lunar Hornet Moth, mating pr - 1st, Abbotskerswell (Barry Henwood) - Photo
  • Comma, Silver-washed Fritillary, 2; Gatekeeper, Ringlet, 2 - 2nd, Bystock Common (Martin Ash)
  • White Admiral - 2nd, Squabmoor Car Pk (Martin Ash)
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 6th, Laira Bridge Cycle Path, Nr Saltram (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Purple Hairstreak, 10 - 7th, Hisley Wood, Bovey Valley (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photos
  • Grayling, 2 - 7th, Bystock Pools (Martin Ash)
  • White Satin Moth - 8th, Garden, Paignton (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Purple Hairstreak - 10th, Stover CP (David Turrell) - Photo
  • Common Blue; Sm Copper; Purple Hairstreak; Comma; Wall*, 37 - 11th, Stoke Coast Path (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Lg white; Sm White; Green-veined White; Holly Blue; Sm Copper; Red Admmiral; Comma; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Peacock; Dark Green Fritillary; Speckled Wood; Wall; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Ringlet - 11th, Bolberry (Rob Macklin)
  • White-letter Hairstreak, 3 - 12th, Oreston, Plymouth (Ian Teague) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Brimstone; Holly Blue; Purple Hairstreak; Comma; Sm Tortoiseshell; Peacock; Red Admiral; White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary; Marbled White; Speckled Wood; Ringlet; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper - 12th, Stoke Pk Wood, Exeter (Rob Bogue & Dennis Kallmer)
  • Holly Blue; Green Hairstreak*; Purple Hairstreak; Silver-washed Fritillary; Sm Heath - 13th, Aylesbeare Common (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *Photo
  • Lg White; Holly Blue; White-letter Hairstreak; Purple Hairstreak; Speckled Wood - 13th, Oreston, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Lg White; Silver-studded Blue; Dark Green Fritillary; Gatekeeper (inc. aberrant form, Multicollata*) - 15th, Soar, (Ian Teague) - *Photo
  • Purple Hairstreak; Ringlet; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper - 15th, Clearbrook (Dave Gregory)
  • Sm Skipper; Sm Copper; Purple Hairstreak; Common Blue; Holly Blue; Red Admiral; Peacock* - 16th, Wembury Coast Path (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Sm Copper; Common Blue; Red Admiral; Comma; Gatekeeper; Hummingbird Hawk-moth; Jersey Tiger Moth* - 18th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *First sighting!
  • Lg Skipper; Brimstone; Holly Blue; Red Admiral; White Admiral; Comma; Silver-washed Fritillary; Ringlet; Gatekeeper; Meadow Brown - 18th, Bovey Valley (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Swallowtail - 18th, Ridgetop Park [no public access] (Sian Avon, Snr Ranger, Teignbridge DC) NB Sighting received 22.7.20
  • Clouded Yellow; Common Blue - 19th, Blagdon Meadow, Plymouth (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Sm Skipper; Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Brown Argus; Sm Coppper; Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Peacock; Grayling; Ringlet; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper - 19th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Clouded Yellow - 20th, Garden, Near Silverton (Robert Bailey)
  • Clouded Yellow - 20th, Garden, Colaton Raleigh, Sidmouth (Chris Frame)
  • Sm Skipper; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Brown Argus; Silver-washed Fritillary; Marbled White; Ringlet; Gatekeeper - 21st, Orley Common (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Sm Skipper; Wood White; Green-veined White; Clouded Yellow; Silver-washed Fritillary - 22nd, Meeth Quarry DWT Res (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photos
  • Clouded Yellow; Brown Argus, 3; Dark Green Fritillary, 4 - 22nd, Braunton Burrows (Bob Bosisto)
  • Common Blue - 25th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 26th, Highweek, Newton Abbot (Philip & Carol Gill) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Jersey Tiger - 28th, Window, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Long-tailed Blue - 29th, Quarry Path, Berry Hd (Bob Bailey) NB This species is a rare vagrant from Europe
  • Clouded Yellow, 3; Sm Blue; Marbled White; Hummingbird Hawk-moth, 3 - 30th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway)

 

 

 

June 2020

 

  • Marsh Fritillary, 50+ - 1st, Volehouse Moor DWT NR (Nancy Cullen)
  • Lg Skipper*, 3; Green Hairstreak, 4; Sm Tortoiseshell; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 2; High Brown Fritillary*; Silver-washed Fritillary, 3; Meadow Brown, 5 - 1st, Aish Tor (Ian Teague) - *Photos
  • Lg Skipper, 12; Common Blue, 5; Marbled White*, 2 - 1st, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *Early first sighting! - *Photo
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 1st, Rackenford More (Richard Banks) - Photo of aberant form
  • Brown Argus; Common Blue - 1st, Southhole (Fred Rayner)
  • Green Hairstreak; Silver-studded Blue*, c.5; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 2nd, Woodberry Common (Penny Wills) - *First sighting! - *Photos
  • Lg Skipper; Green Hairstreak*; Sm Tortoiseshell; Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Dark Green Fritillary*, High Brown Fritillary*; 20+; Sm Heath; Meadow Brown - 2nd, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 5+; Marsh Fritillary*, 5-6 - 2nd, Challacombe Farm (Dave Holloway) - *Photo
  • Clouded Yellow (Helice form) - 2nd, Exminster Marsh (David Turrell) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Wood White*, 2; Sm White, 2; Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper; Common Blue, 8; Red Admiral; Marbled White; Speckled Wood, 2; Meadow Brown, 20+ - 2nd, Littlecombe Shoot, Branscombe (Dave Helliar) - *Photo
  • Lg Skipper*; Speckled Wood, 2; Mint Moth - 3rd, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Brimstone; Sm Tortoiseshell; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 4; High Brown Fritillary, 2 - 2nd, Walkham Bridge, Nr Horrabridge (Stuart Green)
  • Dark Green Fritillary, 32; Grayling* - 7th, Middle Soar (Rob Mabklin) - First sighting!
  • Lg Skipper; Green Hairstreak; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Dark Green Fritillary, 33; Meadow Brown; Sm Heath; Grayling* - 8th, E Soar to Bolt Head (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *Photo
  • *Sm Skipper**; Marbled White**, 3; Meadow Brown, 20 - 8th, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting! - **Photos
  • Dark Green Fritillaries, 468; Gatekeeper - 8th, Starehole Valley & Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Lg Skipper, 20; Sm Skipper, 18; Comma, 3; Marbled White, 8; Meadow Brown*, 16; Silver-Y Moth - 11th, Blunts Lane Meadow, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *Photo of aberrant form
  • Red Admiral; Ringlet*; Speckled Wood - 12th, Plymbridge Woods (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting! - *Photos
  • Clouded Magpie - 14th, Myrtleberry, Nr Lynmouth (Danny Jarvis) - Photo
  • White Admiral - 14th, Bovey Heathfield DWT Res (Kev & Jacki Solman) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Lg Skipper*, 8; Sm Skipper*, 4; Common Blue, 3; Comma*, 3; Marbled White*, 46; Meadow Brown, 100+ - 15th, Billacombe Green, Plymstock (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *Photos
  • White-letter Hairstreak, 2 - 15th, Central Pk, Plymouth (Ian Teague) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Sm Tortoiseshell; Marbled White, 15; Meadow Brown, 13 - 15th, Forder Pk Cemetery, Plymouth (Ian Teague)
  • White Admiral, 3 - 20th, Great Plantation (David Turrell) - Photo
  • Ringlet - 20th, Stover CP (David Turrell) - Photo
  • White Admiral; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Comma; Speckled Wood; Meadow Brown; Ringlet - 20th, Pullabrook Wood, Bovey Valley (Rob Bogue)
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 21st, Near Laira Bridge (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photo
  • Purple Hairstreak*, 4; White Admiral, 13; Comma, 3; Silver-washed Fritllary, 8 - 23rd, Rudge Wood, Bovey Valley (Kev & Jacki Solman) - First sighting!
  • Purple Hairstreak; Green Hairstreak; White Admiral, 3; Comma - 23rd, Bovey Heathfield (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Sm Skipper, 6; Sm Copper, 10; Silver-studded Blue, 117; Dark Fritillary, 182; Marbled White, 31; Grayling, 118; Meadow Brown, 167; Gatekeeper, 89; Ringlet, 5 - 23rd, Soar Mill Cove to Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Brimstone; Purple Hairstreak, 5; White Admiral*, 7; Meadow Brown, 30+ - 23rd, Bovey Valley Woodlands (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Lg Skipper, 4; Sm Skipper, 3; Sm Copper, 4; Silver-studded Blue, 40+; Dark Green Fritillary, 40+; Marbled White, 6; Grayling, 15; Gatekeeper, 6 - 23rd, Bolt Hd (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Sm Copper, 26; Green Hairstreak, 4; Silver-studded Blue*, 27; Small-Pearl Bordered Fritillary, 12; Dark Green Fritillary, 50+; Marbled White, 3; Gatekeepers, 50+ - 24th, East Soar to Bolt Hd (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • White-letter Hairstreak, 2 - 24th, Central Pk, Plymouth (Ian Teague) - Photo
  • White-letter Hairstreak, 3 - 28th, Central Pk, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 29th, Garden, Exeter (Michael Symes) - Photo

 

 

 

May 2020

  • Common Blue, 2; Brown Argus*; Sm Copper; Wall - 1st, Dawlish Warren (Phil Chambers) - *First sighting!
  • Orange-tip; Lg White; Green-veined White*; Sm Copper* - 4th, Nr Gt Parks, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Clouded Yellow*; Sm White; Green-veined White; Orange-tip; Holly Blue; Peacock; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Speckled Wood; Wall - 6th, Coastal Path, Dartmouth - Little Dartmouth (Peter Shaw) - *First sighting!
  • Sm White, 4; Lg White, 3; Orange-tip; Brimstone; Common Blue*, 5; Holly Blue, 3; Sm Copper; Peacock, 2; Comma - 6th, Bircham LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Green Hairstreak, 6; Sm Copper, 6; Wall - 6th, Coastal Path, Saunton Down (Rob Jutsum)
  • Sm Copper*, 11; Green Hairstreak, Wall, 4 - 7th, Wembury Point (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *Photo
  • Painted Lady*; Red Admiral, 2; Speckled Wood - 7th, Harberton (Richard Morris) - *First sighting!
  • Brimstone, 23; Common Blue, 2; Wall*, 2 - 7th, Roborough Down (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Brimstone; Lg White; Sm White; Orange-tip; Holly Blue; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Peacock - 7th, Nr Great Parks, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Brimstone, 2; Sm Heath*, 5-6 - 9th, Roborough Down (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting! - *Photo
  • Grizzled Skipper*; Dingy Skipper; Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 11th, Hennock Reservoirs (Phil Chambers) - *First sighting!
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 12th - 19th, Garden, Berrynarbor (Tim Davis & Tim Jones) - Photos
  • Green Hairstreak*, Sm Copper; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary**, 6 - 13th, Soar (Ian Teague) - **First sighting! - *Photo
  • Brimstone, 3; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 3; Sm Heath, 5 - 14th, Roborough Down (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Brimstone, 3; Green-veined White, 6; Sm Copper; Peacock; Red Admiral; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 2; Speckled Wood, 2 - 15th, Torrington Commons (Graham Preston)
  • Sm Pearl Bordered Fritillary, 9; Sm Heath - 15th, Ramshorn Down (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Green Hairstreak, 3; Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 15-20; Sm Pearl Bordered Fritillary, 2; Sm Heath, 5-6 - 15th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Wood White, 12; Dingy Skipper, 2 - 15th, Meeth Quarry DWT Res (Rob Bogue)
  • High Brown Fritillary Larva - 15th, Dart Valley (Barry Henwood) - Photo
  • Grizzled Skipper, 17 - 16th, Miltor Mator (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photo
  • Brimstone; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary*, 16; Sm Heath, 4 - 16th, Clearbrook, Dartmoor (Dave Gregory) - *Photos
  • Sm Blue, 28; Common Blue, 34; Wall, 3; Mother Shipton; Treble Bar Moth - 16th, Berry Head (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Common Blue, 5; Holly Blue; Sm Copper, 3; Green Hairstreak, 3; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 18; Wall, 3; Speckled Wood, 2 - 18th, Bolt Head & Starehole (Rob Macklin)
  • Lg Skipper*; Lg White, 3; Green-veined White; Orange-tip; Common Blue, 12; Green Hairstreak - 18th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting! - Photos
  • Green Hairstreak - 18th, Garden, Nr Silverton (Robert Bailey)
  • Marsh Fritillary, 50+ - 20th, Nr Peter Tavy (Kev & Jacki Solman) - First sighting! - Photos
  • Green Hairstreak, 3; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Wall, 2; Sm Heath, 15 - 20th, Aish Tor (Iam Teague) - Photos
  • Grizzled Skipper, 8; Lg White, 5; Green-veined White, 5; Orange-tip; Brown Argus; Cinnabar Moth - 20th, Dainton Common (Dave Gregory)
  • Green Hairstreak  - 20th, Langford Bridge, Kingskerswell (David Poole)
  • Painted Lady - 20th, Baggy Point (Gary Watson)
  • White-letter Hairstreak Pupa - 21st, Staverton (Barry Henwood) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper, 2; Sm White, 8; Wood White, 14; Brimstone, 4; Common Blue, 10; Green Hairstreak, 2; Speckled Wood, 8; Wall - 21st, Branscombe (Dennis Kallmer)
  • Lg Skipper; Wood White - 23rd, Branscombe (Ben Gillet)
  • Lg Skipper, 18; Common Blue, 20+; Meadow Brown*, 9 - 24th, Bircham Valley LNR (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting - *Photo
  • Green Hairstreak - 24th, Colaton Raleigh (Chris & Margaret Frame)
  • Clouded Yellow; Marsh Fritillary; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 24th, Emsworthy Mire (Andrew Hickson)
  • Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Marsh Fritillary,  5+; Meadow Brown  -24th, Challacombe Fm (Steph Murphy) - Photos
  • Meadow Brown - 25th, Garden, Dartmouth (Barbara Forey)
  • Lg Skipper, 2; Lg White, 2; Sm White, 3; Orange-tip, 2; Brimstone, 2; Common Blue, 7; Green Hairstreak, 2; Peacock, 4; Sm Tortoiseshell, 2; Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 6; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 30+; Heath Fritillary*, c.20; Meadow Brown, 2; Speckled Wood - 25th, Lydford Old Railway BC Res & Lydford Forest (Rob Bogue) - *First sighting!
  • Orange-tip, 3; Sm Copper, 7; Green Hairstreak, 22; Common Blue, 27; Sm Tortoiseshell; Dark Green Fritillary*, 4; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 48; Wall, 4; Sm Heath, 7 - 25th, Starehole Valley & Bolt Hd (Rob Macklin)
  • Orange-tip; Common Blue; Holly Blue; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood, 2 - 26th, Central Pk, Plymouth (Ian Teague)
  • Meadow Brown - 26th, N Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Gatekeeper - 26th, Garden, Ivybridge (Peter Guy) - First sighting!
  • Sm Copper*, 3; Green Hairstreak*, 8; Common Blue, 3; Red Admiral; Dark Green Fritillary*; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary. 9; Sm Heath, 3 - 27th, Soar (Ian Teague) - *Photos
  • Lg Skipper, 3; Common Blue, 42; Holly Blue, 3; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 123; Wall, 8; Meadow Brown - 27th, Starehole Valley & Bolt Hd (Rob Macklin)
  • Lg Skipper; Common Blue; Marsh Fritillary, 30+; Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary*,  30+ - 27th, Near Peter Tavy (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Painted Lady; Green Hairstreak, 6+ - 28th, Coast Path, Stoke Beach to Warren Car Pk (Paul Turner)
  • Lg Skipper, 2; Green-veined White, 2; Wood White*, 4; Sm Tortoiseshell; Meadow Brown, 8; Speckled Wood, 4 - 28th, Meeth Quarry DWT Res (Ian Teague) - *Photo
  • High Brown Fritillary*, c.10; Dark Green Fritillary, 2 - 29th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) - *First sighting! - Photos
  • Silver-washed Fritillary*; High Brown Fritillary - 30th, Aish Tor (Dave Gibbon) - *Very early first sighting! - *Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Sm White; Brimstone, 10+; Holly Blue; Green Hairstreak; Sm Tortoiseshell; Red Admiral; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; 20+; High Brown Fritillary, 40+; Meadow Brown - 31st, Aish Tor (Rob Bogue)
  • Lg Skipper; Brimstone; High Brown Fritillary, 4; Dark Green Fritillary, 2; Meadow Brown - 31st, Leigh Tor (Rob Bogue)
  • Green Hairstreak; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Dark Green Fritillary*; High Brown Fritillary*, 30+ - 31st, Aish Tor (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *Photos
  • Brimstone; Sm Tortoiseshell; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; High Brown Fritillary, 3; Dark Green Fritillary, 8 - 31st, Venford Res. (Kev & Jacki Solman)

 

April 2020

  • Speckled Wood - 1st, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Lg White - 2nd, No location given (Rob Macklin)
  • Orange-tip; Sm White; Peacock - 4th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Speckled Wood, 2 - 4th, Decoy, Newton Abbot (John Fiske) - Photo
  • Comma, 2; Speckled Wood* - 4th, Garden, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *Photo
  • Orange-tip; Peacock, 2; Speckled Wood; Wall* - 4th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *First sighting!
  • Orange-tip*; Lg White; Brimstone; Peacock, 4; Sm Tortoiseshell, 2 - 5th, Garden, S Molton (Gary Watson) - *Photo
  • Lg White; Brimstone; Peacock, 7; Sm Tortoiseshell, 3; Speckled Wood, 2 - 5th, Lydford Forest (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm White; Orange-tip, 3; Peacock, 5 - 7th, Stowford, Nr Chittlehampton (Mike Braid)
  • Green-veined White, 3; Lg White, 2; Brimstone; Lg Tortoiseshell*; Speckled Wood - 8th, Berrynabor (Tim Davis & Tim Jones) - *Photos -  NB Large Tortoiseshell is now extinct in the UK. This is the 2nd sighting this spring & is believed to be a vagrant from Europe that has overwintered
  • Sm White; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell, 3; Speckled Wood - 8th, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Sm White; Lg White; Orange-tip*; Brimstone; Holly Blue; Peacock; Speckled Wood* - 8th - 11th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Sm White; Lg White; Orange-tip; Brimstone; Holly Blue; Sm Tortoiseshell; Speckled Wood  - 9th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm White; Orange-tip; Holly Blue; Speckled Wood  - 9th, Garden, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell, 2 - 9th, Abbotskerswell (Amy Macleod) - Video still
  • Sm White; Lg white; Orange-tip; Holly Blue; Peacock; Comma; Sm Tortoise Shell; Speckled Wood - 9th, Great Parks, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Orange-tip, 2 - 11th, Garden, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Dingy Skipper - 11th, Weston Combe, Nr Branscombe (David Selby) - First sighting!
  • Orange-tip, 2 - 12th, Garden, Dartmouth (Barbara Forey)
  • Holly Blue; Coma*; Speckled Wood, 3; Hummingbird Hawk-moth* - 13th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *Photos
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 13 - 15th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Orange-tip; Lg White; Sm White*; Green-veined White; Brimstone; Holly Blue; Sm Tortoiseshell*; Peacock*; Speckled wood - 19th, Great Parks, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - *Photos
  • Holly Blue - 21st, Garden, Shutterton, Dawlish (Jo King)
  • Green Hairstreak - 22nd, Torrington Commons (Graham Preston) - First sighting!
  • Orange-tip, 26; Sm White, 4; Holly Blue, 6; Peacock, Speckled Wood - 21st, Billacombe Green, Plymstock, Plymouth (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Wall, 5 - 26th, Pew Tor, Nr Tavistock (Rob Bogue)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Orange Tip; Common Blue*; Sm Copper*; Speckled Wood - 27th, Great Parks, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - *First sightings! - Photos
  • Wood White - 27th, Weston Combe Coast Path, Nr Branscombe (David Selby) - First sighting!
  • Small Blue - 29th, Berry Head (Lin Coulson) - First sighting! - Photo

 

March 2020

  • Lg White - 6th, Garden, Plymstock (Kev Solman) - First sighting! - Photos
  • Peacock - 7th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Brimstone - 11th, Garden, St Leonard's, Exeter (Andrew Blewett) - Photo
  • Red Admiral - 11th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm White - 11th, Garden, Chudleigh (Pete Hurst)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 12th, Chittlehampton (Stuart Beer)
  • Peacock - 16th, Decoy, Newton Abbot (John Fiske)
  • Peacock, 7 - 16th, Bolt Hd & Starhole Valley (Rob Macklin)
  • Peacock, 2; Comma* - 17th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *Photo
  • Peacock, - 20th, Westacott, Barnstable (Stewart Beer)
  • Peacock - 21st, Newport, Barnstable (Stewart Beer)
  • Comma - 22nd, Garden, Tavistock (Martin Quinn)
  • Peacock, 2; Comma, 2; Speckled Wood* - 23rd, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *First sighting! - Photos
  • Brimstone, Peacock, Sm Tortoiseshell, 2 - 23rd, S Moulton (Gary Watson)
  • Brimstone - 23rd, Okehampton (Rob Bogue)
  • Red Admiral, Peacock, Sm Tortoiseshell - 23rd, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Orange-tip - 24th, Garden, Dawlish (Jo King) - First sighting!
  • Orange-tip - 25th, Malston, Kingsbridge (Rob Macklin)
  • Brimstone - 25th, Decoy, Newton Abbot (John Fiske)
  • Green-veined White*, Sm Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Comma - 26th, Cullompton (David Jenner) - *First sighting!
  • Large Tortoiseshell - 26th, Ideford, Nr Chudleigh (Robin Aaronson) NB This species is now extinct in the UK. This sighting is believed to be a vagrant from Europe that has overwintered (Pete Hurst)
  • Holly Blue*, Peacock, 2 - 26th, Nr The Barbican, Plymouth (Stuaet Green) - *First sighting!
  • Comma - 27th, Garden, Harleston (Rob Macklin)
  • Holly Blue - 28th, No location given (Hilary Todd)
  • Holly Blue - 29th, Nr Rumleigh (Jess Maslen) - Photo

 

February 2020

  • Comma - 4th, Woolwell, Plymouth (David Gibbon) - Photo
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 5th, Garden, Paignton (Antony Sherwood) - First sighting!
  • Brimstone - 6th, Garden, Tavistock (Martin Quinn) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 7th, Garden, Musbury (Robert Smith)
  • Peacock - 22nd, Roundswell, Barnstable (Gary Watson)
  • Sm White - 26th, Kitchen, Abbotskerswell (Emma Grice) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 27th, Tavistock (Rob Bogue)

 

January 2020

  • Red Admiral - 3rd, Stoke Beach Coast Path (Kev & Jacki Solman) - First sighting!
  • Red Admiral - 3rd, Garden, Silverton (Robert Bailey)
  • Red Admiral  - 10th, Abbotskerswell (Richard Fox)
  • Red Admiral - 11th, Tavistock (Rob Bogue)
  • Red Admiral; Comma* - 12th, Dartington Gdns (Pete Hurst) - *First sighting!
  • Red Admiral - 19th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Peacock - 20th. Warren House Inn, Dartmoor (James Parsons) - First sighting!
  • Red Admiral - 21st, Stowford, Nr Chittlehampton (Mike Braid)
  • Red Admiral - 29th, Colaton Raleigh, Sidmouth (Chris Frame)
  • Red Admiral - 31st, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo

 

 

 

December 2019

  • Red Admiral - 2nd, Lower Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Red Admiral - 9th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Red Admiral - 16th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Red Admiral - 29th, Nr Royal Marines Camp, Instow (Mike Glover)
  • Red Admiral - 30th, Bonehill Rocks (Rob Bogue)

November 2019

  • Brimstone; Red Admiral, 2 - 3rd, Chudleigh Knighton [BC Workday] (Amanda Hunter) - Photo
  • Red Admiral; Painted Lady - 4th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Red Admiral, 4 - 5th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Red Admiral, 4 - 5th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photos
  • Comma - 5th, Garden, Abbotskerswell (Amy Walkden) - Photo
  • Red Admiral; Peacock - 16th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Red Admiral - 18th, Broadsands (Dave Holloway)

 

October 2019

  • Long-tailed Blue Larvae, 2 - 1st, on Ever-lasting Pea, private garden, Seaton (Ivor Davies) - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow, 5; Lg White, 18; Painted Lady, 2 - 2nd, Mount Wise Park, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Monarch  - 2nd, Garden, Southole (Lesley Highton) - NB Rare vagrant from N America
  • Lg White, 2; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood, 2; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 2nd, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell - 2nd, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Painted Lady; Red Admiral - 2nd, Brent Tor (Rob Bogue)
  • Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 4th, Garden Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Lg White; Painted Lady; Red Admiral - 13th, Quarry & Quarry Path, Berry Hd (Dave Holloway)
  • Clouded Yellow, 3-4; Lg White; Red Admiral, 2 - 15th, Axemouth Beach (Simon Primrose)
  • Sm Copper - 15th, Tavistock (Rob Bogue)
  • Comma, 2; Red Admiral, 5; Painted Lady, Speckled Wood, 2 - 16th, Lydford Village (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell - 16th, N Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 17th, Barnstable Garden Centre (Gary Watson)
  • Lg White, Sm White, Red Admiral - 23rd, Seafront, Dawlish (Pete Hurst)
  • Sm White, 2; Red Admiral, 29; Wall - 24th, SW Coastal Path, Little Dartmouth (Peter Shaw)
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 28th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Peacock - 31st, Garden, Lydford (Rob Bogue)

 

September 2019

  • Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Sm Tortoiseshell; Plainted Lady; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 1st, Garden & Village, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Dingy Skipper; Lg White; Sm White; Clouded Yellow; Long-tailed Blue*, 1f; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Painted Lady; Comma; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 4th, Seaton (Rob Bogue) - *NB Rare European vagrant
  • Painted Lady, 3 - 7th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Wall - 8th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Clouded Yellow; Comma, 4; Red Admiral - 10th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Red Underwing - 11th, Garden, Kingskerswell (David Poole)
  • Jersey Tiger - 11th, Garden, Tiverton (Caroline Nicholson)
  • Clouded Yellow; Wall - 13th, Langford Bridge, Kingskerswell (David Poole)
  • Clouded Yellow; Sm White; Lg White; Sm Copper; Comma; Sm Tortoiseshell; Red Admiral; Wall - 14th, Stoke Beach Cost Path (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photo
  • Lg White; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Brown Hairstreak, 2 - 14th, Preston Down (Dave Gregory)
  • Lg White; Sm White; Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Peacock; Meadow Brown - 14th, Spekes Mill Mouth (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 15th, Soar (Richie Moore) NB Late record - Photo
  • Brown Hairstreak - 16th, Clennon Valley, Paignton (Clive Harris) - Photo
  • Brown Hairstreak; Sm Copper; Comma; Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Meadow Brown; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 17th, Clennon Valley, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Clouded Yellow; Comma; Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Wall - 18th, Soar & Southdown Fm (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow; Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Painted Lady; Comma; Meadow Brown, Wall; Speckled Wood - 19th, Stoke Pt coastal path (Rob Bogue)
  • Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Wall - 20th, Church, Brent Tor (Rob Bogue)
  • Wall - 22nd, E Kerswell Downs (David Poole)
  • Long-tailed Blue - 24th, Garden, Plymouth (Russel Eynon) - NB European vagrant
  • Long-tailed Blue 24th, Paignton Zoo (Steve Evans & Ann Lee) - NB European vagrant - Video Snapshots
  • Meadow Brown - 25th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Richard Chambers)
  • Common Blue; Painted Lady; Comma  - 27th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Painted Lady - 30th, Estover, Plymouth (Dave Holloway) - NB This was an unusual night time sighting, at 00:45 - 02:15, attracted to lights - Photo

August 2019

  • Brown Hairstreak - 1st, South Molton (Gary Watson) - First sighting!
  • Sm Copper; Purple Hairstreak; Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Wall - 1st, Warren Pt (Dave Gregory)
  • Swallowtail - 2nd, Exeter (Andrew Thomas) - NB Probable European Vagrant
  • Brown Hairstreak - 3rd, Highweek (Philip & Carol Gill) - Photo
  • Jersey Tiger - 4th, Plymouth (Simon Willis)
  • Jersey Tiger, 2 - 4th, House & Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Jersey Tiger, 3 - 5th, House & Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - NB Examination of photos of the Jersey Tigers from 4th & 5th revealed variations in markings. This showed that the 4 photographed, out of the 5 seen over the 2 days, were different Moths.
  • Painted Lady, 9 (inc 1 aborrant form); Mint Moth, 2 - 5th, Garden, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)  - Photos
  • Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 6th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Grayling, 20 - 7th & 8th, Bovey Heath (David Turrell) - Photo
  • White Admiral - 12th, Yarcombe (Miranda Gudenian)
  • Jersey Tiger - 12th, Garden, Sidmouth (Michael Wilcox)
  • Jersey Tiger - 17th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow, 2+; Common Blue, 2; Painted Lady, c50; Wall; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 18th, Quarry, Berry Head (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Clouded Yellow; Painted Lady, 8; Silver-washed Fritillary; Sm Tortoiseshell, 8 -19th, Garden, Harleston (Rob Macklin)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Red Admiral, 4 - 19th, Garden Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow  - 20th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Common Blue; Painted Lady, 3; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 20th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photos
  • Brown Hairstreak, 3+ - 20th, Preston Down (Ian Teague) - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow, 6-7; Common Blue,  c10; Painted Lady, 50+; Sm Tortoiseshell; Red Admiral, 5+; Wall; Meadow Brown; Hummingbird Hawk-moth; Six-spot Burnet, 2 - 20th, Quarry, Berry Head (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Brimstone; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 21st, Peter Tavy (Peter Randall)
  • Sm Heath, 3 - 21st, Clearbrook, Dartmoor (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Painted Lady; Red Admiral, 2; Jersey Tiger - 23rd, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Clouded Yellow, 2 - 23rd, Orcombe Pt (Heath Nickels)
  • Clouded Yellow, 2 (inc., 1 Helice); Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady, 4; Brimstone - 24th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photos
  • Silver-washed Fritillary, 17 (inc., 1 Valezina) - 24th, Ashclyst Forest (Steph & Rob Murphy) - Photo
  • Jersey Tiger - 24th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Brown Hairstreak, 2 - 24th, S Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Long-tailed Blue, 3 - 25th, E side of Axe Beach, Seaton (Luke Harman) - Photos - NB   This species is a rare European Vagrant.
  • Painted Lady - 25th, Garden Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Swallowtail - 26th, Garden, Woodbury Salterton (Mike Meehan) - NB Probable European Vagrant
  • Dingy Skipper, 2-3; Clouded Yellow, 3; Sm White; Long-tailed Blue*, 1; Common Blue; Holly Blue; Painted Lady - 27th, E side of Axe Beach, Seaton (Rob Bogue) - *NB European Vagrant
  • Clouded Yellow, 24; Sm White, 62; Painted Lady, 26 - 27th, W Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow, 2; Long-tailed Blue, 2; Holly Blue - 29th, Axemouth Estuary, (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow, 47; Sm White, 120; Painted, 78 - 30th, W Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Painted Lady - 30th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 30th, Knightshayes Ct Garden NT, nr Tiverton (David Wright)
  • Long-tailed Blue - 31st, Seaton (Ian Teague) - Photo - NB European Vagrant

 

July 2019

  • White-letter Hairstreak, 2 - 3rd, Central Pk, Plymouth (Ian Teague) - First sighting!
  • Lg White; Sm Copper, 2; Purple Hairstreak*, 8; Painted Lady, 3; Meadow Brown, 8; Gatekeeper* - 4th, Warren Pt, Wembury (Dave Gregory) - First Sightings!
  • Painted Lady; Marbled White; Wall; Ringlet; Meadow Brown - 5th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Sm White, 2; White-letter Hairstreak, 8; Comma; Painted Lady - 6th, Central Pk, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Gatekeeper*; Meadow Brown, 5; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 7th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *First sighting!   Photo
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 8th, Garden, Silverton, Exeter (Robert Bailey)
  • Lg Skipper; White Admiral - 8th, Pullabrook Woods (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Dark Green Fritillary; Marbled White; Gatekeeper; Meadow Brown; Grayling - 8th, W Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 8th, Castle Drago (Vanessa Wolfman)
  • Sm Skipper*; Lg Skipper; Sm White; Green-veined White; Red Admiral; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Dark Green Fritillary; Marbled White; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Wall; Ringlet - 9th, Southdown Fm, Bolberry [E] (Rob Macklin)
  • Brimstone; White-letter Hairstreak; White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary; Meadow Brown; Ringlet - 9th, Rudge Wood, Bovey Valley (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Brimstone; White Admiral, 12; Silver-washed Fritillary, 5; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Meadow Brown, 18 - 10th, Pullabrook Woods (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Lg Skipper; Sm Skipper; Peacock; Comma; Marbled White; Gatekeeper; Meadow Brown; Ringlet - 10th, Powderham Marsh (Steve Cox)
  • Sm Skipper - 11th, Elburton (Paul Turner)
  • Purple Hairstreak, 3 - 15th, Buckland Abbey (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary; Ringlet; Gatekeeper - 15th, Rudge Wood & Hisley Wood, Bovey Valley (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Brown Argus; Grayling - 15th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 16th, Kerswell Downs (Charles Thompson)
  • Lg White; Sm Copper; Common Blue; Silver-studded Blue; Comma; Red Admiral; Grayling; Gatekeeper; Meadow Brown - 16th, Soar (Dave Gregory)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary (Valezina form) - 18th, Hollcombe (Sarah Beverly)
  • Swallowtail - 20th, Garden, Sticklepath, Barnstable (Colin & Michelle Beardsley) - NB Unknown provenance - possible wild vagrant, or escape or deliberate release.
  • Lg White; Sm White; Holly Blue; Purple Hairstreak; Comma; Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary; Ringlet; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood - 20th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Wall, Jersey Tiger* - 21st, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - *First sighting!
  • Sm Copper - 23rd, Coleton Fishacre (Simon Willis) - Photo
  • Sm Skipper; Purple Hairstreak; Common Blue; Silver-washed Fritillary - 23th, Occombe Fm [TBCCT] (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Ringlet - 24th, Garden, Paignton - Photo
  • White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary - 24th, Rudge & Hisley Woods, Bovey Valley (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 25th, Garden, Yarcombe (Miranda Gudenian)
  • Jersey Tiger - 28th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Dingy Skipper, 5; Wood White, 3; Sm White; Common Blue, 3; Peacock - 29th, Axmouth Beach (Roger Laughton)
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 31st, Wilborough Common (David Poole) - Photo

June 2019

  • Sm Blue, 30; Wall, 18; Common Blue, 3 - 1st, Berry Head (Dave Gregory)
  • Grayling, 2 - 3rd, Goat Rock, W Soar (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!
  • Lg Skipper, 50+; Common Blue, 14; Red Admiral - 3rd, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - Photos
  • Brimstone; Common Blue; Hummingbird Hawk-moth - 4th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Meadow Brown, 2 - 4th, Weston, nr Sidmouth (Phil Taylor)
  • Marsh Fritillary, 4 - 6th, Ruddycleave (Geoffrey Fenton)
  • Lg Skipper - 6th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Meadow Brown, - 9th, Occombe Fm, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • *High Brown Fritillary, 3; Dark Green Fritillary, 9 - 10th, Heddon Valley (Paul Dunn) - *First sighting! - Photos
  • Meadow Brown, 2 - 15th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Silver-studded Blue - 15th, E Devon Commons (David Land) - First sighting!
  • Ringlet - 17th, Bystock Pools (Martin Ash) - First sighting!
  • Common Blue, 3; Marbled White*, 4; Meadow Brown, 12; Five-spot Burnet Moth, 5 - 19th, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting! - Photo
  • High Brown Fritillary; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Heath - 20th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Marbled White - 20th, Battery Gardens (Clive Harris) - Photo
  • Meadow Brown, 171; Six-spot Burnet Moth, 6 - 21st, La Ronde (Martin Ash)
  • Green Hairstreek, 2; Painted Lady; Silver Y Moth* - 21st, Bystock Pools (Martin Ash) - First sighting!
  • Painted Lady, 2; Hummingbird Hawk-moth -24th, Garden, Yarcombe (Miranda Gudenian)
  • Marbled White, 2+; Ringlet; Painted Lady; Sm Tortoiseshell; Red Admiral; Eyed Hawk-moth - 24th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Phil Chambers)
  • Painted Lady, 20 - 30; Marbled White, 4 - 24th, Bystock Pools (Martin Ash)
  • Painted Lady, 62 - 24th, Aish Tor (Dave Land)
  • Lg Skipper, 5; Lg White, 2; Common Blue, 2; Painted Lady, 20+; Marbled White, 30+, Meadow Brown, 16 - 24th, Bircham Valley LNR, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Sm Magpie Moth - 24th, Garden, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - First sighting!   Photo
  • Wall - 25th, Totnes (Sue Carole)
  • Large Tortoiseshell*; Painted Lady, 7 - 25th, Broadsands (Clive Harris) - *NB Though once a common breeding species, Large Tortoiseshell is now extinct in the UK. This individual will be a vagrant from Europe and an exciting find for Clive, accompanied by a great photo!
  • Sm Pearl-borderd Fritillary, 2 - 25th, Little Haldon (James Today)
  • Marbled White, 50+; Ringlet*, 20+; Sm Skipper*, 3; Common Blue  - 27th, Billacombe Green, Plymstock (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *First sighting! - Photos
  • White Admiral  - 27th, Great Plantation, Nr Bovey Tracey (Clive Harris) - First sighting!
  • High Brown Fritillary; Dark Green Fritillary; Sm Heath; Meadow Brown; Red Admiral; Painted Lady - 27th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • White Admiral - 27th, Pullabrook Woods (Ella Chambers)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary*, 2; Comma, 3; Meadow Brown, 5 - 28th, Plymbridge Woods (Dave Gregory) - *First sighting!
  • Silver-washed Fritillary*; Silver-studded Blue - 28th, E Budleigh Common (Clive Harris) - *First sighting!

May 2019

  • Wood White, 2; Sm Copper, 2; Common Blue; Holly Blue; Orange Tip; Speckled Wood - 2nd, Branscombe (Rob Skinner)
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 20 - 4th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Grizzled Skipper - 4th, Stoneycombe Copse (Clive Harris) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 4th, Ramshorn Down (Clive Harris) - Photo
  • Sm Blue*, 5; Wall; Peacock; Orange Tip - 6th, Berry Head (Clive Harris) - *First sighting! - Photo
  • Common Blue*; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 4; Wall, 2 - 10th, W Soar & Soar Mill Cove (Rob Macklin) - *First sighting!
  • Sm Pearl-borderd Fritillary, 50+; Sm Heath*, 2 - 12th, Berra Tor, Roborough Down (Kev & Jacki Solman) - *First Sighting!
  • Marsh Fritillary - 12th, Marsland DWT Res (Ella Peacock) - First Sighting!
  • Grizzled Skipper, 3; Dingy Skipper, 4; Orange Tip, 2; Brown Argus*, 20+; Sm Copper, Peacock, Wall, 4 - 12th, Braunton Burrows (Grahme Preston) - *First Sighting!
  • Orange Tip, 2; Brimstone, Sm Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Wall, 3 - 13th, Greator Rocks (Rob Bogue)
  • Common Blue, 6; Brown Argus, 3 - 13th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Phil Chambers)
  • Orange Tip, 5; Brimstone, Common Blue, 3; Wall, Speckled Wood, 2 - 13th, The Beacon, Yarcombe (Miranda Gudenian)
  • Common Blue; Sm Copper, 2; Wall, 4 - 14th, Baggy Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Common Blue; Sm Copper; Green Hairstreak; Sm Heath, 4; Wall, 2 - 14th, Morte Pt (Gary Watson)
  • Dingy Skipper, 2; Wood White, 7; Adonis Blue*; Common Blue, 2; Holly Blue, 8; Sm Copper, 2; Wall - 14th, Branscombe (Brian Heasman) - *First sighting!
  • Marsh Fritillary, 2 - 14th, Little Breach BCNR (Gus Robin) - Photos
  • Heath Fritillary*, 8; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 8 - 18th, Lydford Old Railway BC Res (Mark Searle) - *First Sighting!
  • Wood White, 10 - 19th, Meeth Quarry DWT Res (Simon Thurgood)
  • Grizzled Skipper, 12 - 21st, Miltor Mator (Kev & Jackie Solman)
  • Lg Skipper*; Green Hairstreak, 3; Common Blue - 21st, Wembury Pt (Stuart Green) - *First sighting! - Photos
  • Lg Skipper; Green Hairstreak, 2; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 4; Dark Green Fritillary*; Wall,  12 - 22nd, Bolt Head & Starhole (Rob Macklin) - *First sighting!
  • Dingy Skipper - 22nd, Morte Pt (Gary Watson) - Photo
  • Green Hairstreak; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 3; Sm Heath, 30+ - 22nd, Roborough Down (Dave Gregory)
  • Meadow Brown - 25th, Southole (Fred Rayner) - First sighting!
  • Meadow Brown - 25th, Bystock Pools (Janet & Martin Ash) - First sighting!
  • Grizzled Skipper, 5; Holly Blue; Burnet Companion - 27th, Dainton Common (Steph & Rob Murphy) - Photos
  • Meadow Brown - 28th, Dawlish Warren (Simon Thurgood)
  • Common Blue; Heath Fritillary, c.40; Sm Pearl-borderd Fritillary, 2; Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 31st, Lydford Old Railway BCNR
  • Pearl-Bordered Fritillary; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Heath - 31st, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Pearl-Bordered Fritillary; Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Sm Heath; Green Hairstreak - 31st, Dart Valley (Dave Holloway)

April 2019

  • Orange Tip, 2; Sm Tortoiseshell; Peacock, 6; Red Admiral, 2; Wall, 3; Speckled Wood - 1st, Wembury Pt (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photos
  • Small Copper, 4 - 1st, Wembury Pt (Kev & Jacki Solman) - First sighting! -  Photo
  • Small Copper - 6th, The Warren, nr Noss Mayo (Dave Gibbon)
  • Orange Tip; Comma; Speckled Wood - 7th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Green Hairstreak - 9th, Portlemouth Down (Rob Macklin)
  • Small Copper, 2 - 9th, Gara Rock (Rob Macklin)
  • Green-veined White*; Sm White, 2; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood, 2 - 10th, Lydford (Rob Bogue) - * First sighting!
  • Green-veined White; Orange Tip; Peacock - 11th, Coast Path, W of Sandford Sands Hotel (Timothy Quine)
  • Sm White; Orange Tip; Peacock  - 12th, Old Sludge Beds, Exeter (Richard Fox) - Photos
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary  - 17th, Ramshorn Down (Dave Land) - First sighting!
  • Holly Blue - 17th, Garden, Stoke Plymouth (Simon Willis)
  • Brimstone - 18th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Pearl-borderd Fritillary - 19th, Trendlebere Down (Andrew Hickson)
  • Lg White; Green-veined White; Orange Tip; Holly Blue; Speckled Wood - 19th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Humming-bird Hawk-moth - 19th, Garden, N Tawton (Brian Grant)
  • Dingy Skipper, 2 - 19th, Lincombe (Roger Laughton) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper - 20th, Coast Path, Stoke NT Car Pk, Carswell Fm (Kev & Jacki Solman)
  • Dingy Skipper; Clouded Yellow - 21st, Weston Combe, nr Branscombe (David Selby)
  • Wall - 22nd, Walls Hill, Babbacombe (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Wall - 23rd, E Prawle (Simon Willis)
  • Wood White - 23rd, Branscombe (Karen Woolley) - Photo
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 5 - 23rd, Ramshorn Down (Dennis Kallmer) - Photo
  • Sm Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 2 - 30th, Berra Tor, Roborough Down (Kev & Jacki Solman) - First national sighting!! - Photos

 

March 2019

  • Sm Tortoiseshell, 2; Peacock; Red Admiral - 19th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Orange Tip - 19th, Garden, Wembury Point (David Gibbon) - First national sighting!
  • Speckled Wood, 2 - 23rd, Southole, Hartland (Fred Raynor) - First sighting!
  • Orange Tip,  - 24th, Southole, Hartland (Fred Raynor)
  • Brimstone; Sm White; Sm Tortoiseshell; Peacock; Comma - 24th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photos
  • Speckled Wood - 25th, Garden, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Clouded Yellow - 25th, Lincombe (Rob Skinner) - First sighting!
  • Painted Lady; Peacock, 5; Speckled Wood - 25th, Soar Mill Valley (Rob Macklin)
  • Painted Lady - 26th, SW Coastal Path, Downend Pt (Peter Shaw)
  • Speckled Wood - 26th, SW Coastal Path, Scabbacombe Hd (Peter Shaw)
  • Holly Blue - 26th, Lydford (Phil Chambers) - Photo
  • Holly Blue - 26th, Garden, Plymstock (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Holly Blue - 27th, Garden Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Lg White - 27th, Garden, Derriford (Dave Gregory) - First sighting!
  • Brimstone, 2; Orange Tip - 27th, Garden, Lustleigh (Rob Macklin)
  • Holly Blue; Orange Tip; Comma; Peacock - 27th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Wall, 3 - 30th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway) - Photo
  • Green Hairstreak - 30th, Branscombe (Karen Woolley) - First sighting!

February 2019

  • Peacock - 2nd, Derriford Driveway, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Brimstone - 3rd, Chudleigh Knighton Heath (Pete Hurst) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Comma - 14th, Hartland (Fred Rayner) - First sighting!
  • Peacock - 14th, Fremington, Nr Barnstable (Gary Watson)
  • Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell - 15th, Sharp Tor, Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Red Admiral - 15th, Plympton Cross, Nr Salcombe (Rob Macklin)
  • Peacock - 15th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Sm Tortoiseshell, 2; Peacock - 15th, Woolacombe (Gary Watson)
  • Red Admiral - 15th, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Comma - 21st, South Molton (Gary Watson)
  • Brimstone - 21st, Kings Nympton (Katherine Lockett)
  • Brimstone, 2; Sm Tortoiseshell - 21st, Tavistock (Rob Bogue)
  • Red Admiral - 23rd, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Peacock - 23rd, Broadcombe, Bovey Tracey (Prue Ruffles)
  • Humming-bird Hawk-moth - 23rd, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Thompson) - First sighting!
  • Painted Lady - 24th, Garden, Bovey Tracey (John Rickett)
  • Brimstone; Red Admiral, 5; Peacock, 3; Sm Tortoiseshell, 2; Painted Lady - 24th, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Hummingbird Hawkmoth; Peacock; Red Admiral; Comma - 25th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photos
  • Sm White - 26th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - First sighting! - Photo

January 2019

  • Peacock - 1st, Otterton (Rob Skinner) - First sighting!
  • Painted Lady -1st, Bovisand, Plymouth (Vic Tucker) - First national sighting!!
  • Red Admiral - 1st, Bovisand, Plymouth (Vic Tucker)
  • Small Tortoiseshell - 2nd, Killerton (Ray Jones) - First sighting!
  • Red Admiral - 19th, Lydford (Robert Bogue)

 

December 2018

  • Peacock - 26th, Berry Head (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Red Admiral - 26th, Broadsands (Clive Harris)

November 2018

  • Small Copper, 2nd - Lydford (Rob Bogue) - Late sighting!
  • Red Admiral, 2; Hummingbird Hawkmoth - 2nd, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow, 2 - 3rd, Dunscombe Cliffs (Sue Anderson)
  • Peacock - 26th, Southdown Farm, Bolberry (Rob Macklin)
  • Red Admiral  - 30th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)

October 2018

  • Clouded Yellow, 2; Small White, 47; Small Copper, 2; Red Admiral, 10; Peacock, 2; Comma; Speckled Wood, 14; Wall, 2 - 1st, East Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Cloude Yellow; Sm White, 3; Red Admiral - 3rd, Mount Wise Park (Dave Gregory)
  • Common Blue - 5th, Mount Wise Park (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Clouded Yellow, 2; Small White, 6; Red Admiral, 4; Speckled Wood, 12 - 5th, East Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow - 5th, 7 seen Start Point (Perry Saunders)
  • Clouded Yellow, 3; Sm White, 3; Holly Blue; Red Admiral, 2; Painted Lady; Wall, 3 - 9th,  Mount Wise Park (Dave Gregory) - Photo
  • Small Copper; Red Admiral - 18th, Bolberry Down (Charles & Susan Little)
  • Sm Copper; Peacock; Sm Tortoiseshell, 6; Red Admiral, 2 - 20th, Sheep's Tor (Rob Bogue)
  • Clouded Yellow, 4 (inc. 1 Helice f); Wall, 3; Holly Blue  - 20th, Mutton Cove, Plymouth (Dave Gregory)
  • Clouded Yellow; Sm Copper; Peacock; Painted Lady, 2; Red Admiral, 13; Speckled Wood - 22nd, East Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Holly Blue, Red Admiral, 19; Speckled Wood - 24th, Soar Mill Valley (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow, 3 - 24th, Blackpool Sands (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow, 2; Sm Copper, 2; Red Admiral, 3 - 29th, Wembury Point (Dave Gregory) 

September 2018

  • Brimstone; Lg White; Sm White; Green-veined White; Holly Blue; Common Blue; Sm Copper; Sm Tortoiseshell; Painted Lady; Peacock; Speckled Wood - 1st, Lydford (Rob Bogue)

  • Purple Hairstreak - 2nd, Dewerstone, Plymbridge Woods (Rob Bogue)Adonis Blue - 3rd, 2m & 1f seen Branscombe (Roger Laughton) - Photos

  • BrimstoneCommon Blue, 3m, 2f; Sm White, 6; Lg White, 2; Speckled Wood, 3; Red Admiral,  - 3rd, Branscombe (Roger Laughton)

  • Clouded Yellow, 2; Lg White, 5; Sm White, 20; Adonis Blue, 5; Common Blue, c20; Brown Argus; Sm Copper, 3; Red Admiral; Painted Lady - 5th, Branscombe (Dave Gregory) - Photo    
  • Wall; Clouded Yellow - 13th, Blackstone Point, Noss Mayo (Dave Gibbon) - Photo
  • Wall - 18th, Fire Beacon Hill, Sidmouth (David Millen)
  • Wall, 6; Small Copper, 4; Red Admiral, 7; Speckled Wood, 10; Small White, 4 - 23rd, Stoke Point (Kev & Jacki Solman) - Photo
  • Painted Lady - 25th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Red Admiral; Comma - 27th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Geranium Bronze - 27th, Budleigh Salterton (David Smith) - Photo  NB This species is native to South Africa, being an accidental introduction to The UK from imported plants. Though not considered a British Butterfly, it has turned up at several locations nationally, and is certainly an exciting find in Devon. This is the second sighting of Geranium Bronze in Budleigh Salterton, the first being, 31.8.18.
  • Small Copper, 3; Holly Blue, 2; Red Admiral, 4; Comma - 27th, Tarka Trail, Nr Heanton Court (Stewart Beer)

August 2018

  • Clouded Yellow - 2nd, 2 seen Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 3rd, Garden, South Molton (Gary Watson) - First Sighting!
  • Brown Argus - 4th, Garden, Stowford, near Chittlehampton (Mike Braid)
  • Brown Hairstreak - 5th, Preston Down, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - Photos
  • Convolvulus Hawk-moth - 17th, Lapford (Abby Williams) -  First Sighting!
  • Painted Lady - 25th, 3 seen Buddleigh Salterton (Malcom Hull)
  • Small Copper - 27th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Painted Lady - 31st, 2 seen Berry Head (Dave Holloway)

  • Geranium Bronze - 31st, Garden, Budleigh Salterton (Bryan Smith) - First for Devon! NB This species is native to South Africa, being an accidental introduction to The UK from imported plants. Though not considered a British Butterfly, it has turned up at several locations nationally, and is certainly an exciting find in Devon.

July 

  • Hummingbird Hawkmoth - 2nd, Near Clovelly (Amy Cox) - First Sighting!
  • Large Tortoiseshell - 2nd, Dawlish Warren (Dave Crawthaw) - First Sighting!  NB Though once a common sight in The UK, it is now extinct as a breeding species. This exciting find for Dave is probably a European vagrant. - Photo

June

  •  Meadow Brown - 4th, Car Pk, Broadsands (Clive Harris) - First sighting! 
  • Silver-studded Blue; Grayling; Gatekeeper - 11th, Bolt Head (Rob Macklin) - All first sightings!
  • Ringlet - 13th, Near Nation Marine Aquarium, Plymouth (Stuart Green) - First sighting! 
  • Marbled White - 15th, Bystock Nature Reserve (Sarah Butcher) - First sighting! 
  • High Brown Fritillary - 16th, Aish Tor, (David Land) - First sighting! 
  • White Admiral - 18th, 4 seen Ashclyst Forest (David Land & Brian Heasman) - First sighting! 
  • White Admiral  - 18th, 4 seen The Great Plantation (David Turrell) - First sighting! - Photo
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 22nd, Chudleigh (Pete Hurst) - First sighting! 
  • Purple Hairstreak - 23rd, Powderham Path (David Cope) - First sighting! 
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 24th, Derriford (Dave Gregory) - First sighting!
  • Small Skipper - 25th, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - First sighting!

May

  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 2nd, S Dartmoor (David Turrell) - First sighting!
  • Wall - 3rd, Sharp Tor, Bolt Head (Rob Macklin) - First sighting! 
  • Grizzled Skipper - 5th, 6 seen, Miltor Mator (David Turrell) - First sighting!
  • Small Copper - 6th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Steve Ayres) - First sighting! 
  • Clouded Yellow - 7th, Dawlish Warren NNR (Phil Chambers)
  • Green Hairstreak - 7th, Rushlade Common (David Turrell) - First sighting!   
  • Green Hairstreak - 7th, 2 seen, Near Stoke Point (Dave Gregory) - First sighting! 
  • Painted Lady - 13th, 2 seen, Baggy Point (Gary Watson)
  • Small Blue - 13th, 2 seen, Berry Head (Bill MacDonald) - First sighting!
  • Brown Argus - 15th, Braunton Burrows (Phil Chambers) - First sighting!
  • Common Blue - 19th, 23 seen, Morte Pt, Nr Woolacombe Bay (Gary Watson) - First sighting!
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 20th, Marsland DWT Res (Ella Peacock) - First sighting!
  • Marsh Fritillary - 20th, Dunsdon NNR (Ella Peacock) - First sighting!
  • Wood White - 21st, 3 seen Holsworthy Woods (Pete Hurst) - First sighting!
  • Small Heath - 21st, 3 seen Ramshorn Down (David Turrell) - First sighting!
  • Adonis Blue - 25th, 2 seen Branscombe (Brian Heasman)
  • Large Skipper - 27th, Ruggadon Reserve (Pete Hurst) - First sighting! 
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 31st, Bolt Head & Starehole Valley (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!

April

  • Large White - 12th, Derriford, Plymouth (Dave Gregory) - First sighting! 
  • Speckled Wood - 13th, Torquay (Amanda Hunter) - First sighting!
  • Clouded Yellow - 16th, Watcombe, Near Torquay (Amanda Hunter) - First sighting! - Photo
  • Holly Blue - 19th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway) - First sighting!
  • Holly Blue -19th, Garden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood) - First sighting!
  • Orange Tip - 19th, Bridestowe & Lewdown (John Martin) - First sighting!
  • Orange Tip - 19th, Crapstone (Dave Gregory) - First sighting!
  • Clouded Yellow - 21st, Bolberry Down, S Hams (Rob Macklin)
  • Green-veined White - 22nd, Weston Cliffs, E Devon (David Jenner) - First sighting!
  • Dingy Skipper - 23rd, c.6 seen, Undercliff NNR, W of Lyme Regis (Paul Butter) - First sighting!
  • Painted Lady - 25th, Southdown Farm, Bolberry, S Hams (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!

March

  • Comma - 13th, Histly Woods (David Turrell) - First sighting!
  • Small White - 26th, Barnstable (Gary Watson) - First sighting!

February

  • Small Tortoiseshell - 20th, Paccombe Farm (John Fiske) - First sighting!

January

  • Red Admiral - 1st, Colyford (Richard Turner) - First sighting!
  • Red Admiral - 2nd, Exmouth (Sarah Butcher) 
  • Peacock - 11th, Woolwell, Plymouth (Dave Gibbon) - First sighting
  • Brimstone  - 19th, Farringdon (Roger Bristow) - First sighting

     

2017 Sightings

December

  • Red Adfmiral - 4th, Wembury Point (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Red Admiral  - 18th, Lydford (Rob Bogue); 18th, Lustleigh (Hugh & Hilary Gould); 18th, Cockington (Amanda Hunter); 19th, Gsrden, Paignton (Anthony Sherwood)
  • Peacock - 30th, Wheathill (Liz Hamling)

November

  • Red Admiral; Small Tortoiseshell - 1st, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Small White; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood - 2nd, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Clouded Yellow; Red Admiral - 3rd, Allotment, Teignmouth (James Cummings)
  • Clouded Yellow - 8th, Wembury Point (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Small Copper*; Red Admiral - 15th, no location given (Terry Searle) - *NB Late sighting for this sp
  • Red Admiral - 18th, garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Red Admiral - 23rd, Allotment, Teignmouth (James Cummings)
  • Peacock - 26th, Teigngrace Meadows (Pete Hurst)
  • Red Admiral - 28th, Tiverton (Ray Jones)

October

  • Comma - 22nd, Garden, Chudleigh (Pete Hurst)
  • Clouded Yellow; Painted Lady - 24th, Allotment, Teignmouth (James Cummings)
  • Red Admiral - 25th, Garden, Axminster (S Mackie - via Cams & Essex IYA)
  • Large White - 29th, Garden, Chudleigh (Pete Hurst)

September

  • Clouded Yellow (inc. 1 Helice); Common Blue; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood; Sm White; Lg White; Red Admiral;Painted Lady; Small Tortoiseshell - 1st, Branscombe (Rob Bogue)
  • Common Blue; Sm Copper; Meadow Brown - 22nd, Dawlish Warren (Amanda Hunter) 
  • Lg White; Sm White; Sm Copper; Red Admiral; Speckled Wood; Meadow Brown; Wall - 23rd, Stoke Point (Dave Gregory) 

 

August

  • Wood White - 1st, 8 seen Meeth Quarry (David Turrell) 
  • Brown Argus - 4th, 4 seen Orley Common (David Turrell) 
  • Wall - 4th, Bolt Head (Rebecca Gethin) 
  • Silver-studded Blue - 4th, Bolt Head (Rebecca Gethin)
  • Marbled White; Gatekeeper; Meadow Brown; Peacock; Red Admiral; Small Copper; Common Blue; Brimstone; Small Skipper - 5th, Little Breach (David Jenner) 
  • Brown Argus - 6th, Kerswell Down (Amanda Hunter) 
  • Clouded Yellow  - 6th, 2 seen Nightingale Park, Torquay (Amanda Hunter) 
  • Brown Argus; Common Blue; Painted Lady; Red Admiral; Meadow Brown; Speckled Wood - 6th, Weston Mouth (David Jenner)
  • Painted Lady; Wall; Grayling; Common Blue - 9th, Braunton Burrows (David Jenner) 
  • Clouded Yellow - 10th, Frogmore, Kingsbridge (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow - 10th , Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Painted Lady - 10th, 3 seen Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Brown Argus - 10th, Dawlish Warren (Penny Darling) 
  • Brown Hairstreak - 15th, Preston Down (Kevin & Jacki Solman) 
  • Brown Argus; Small Blue; Common Blue; Small Tortoiseshell; Silver-washed Fritillary - 15th, Orley Common (David Gregory)
  • Green-veined White; Common Blue; Holly Blue; Brown Argus; Small Copper; Small Tortoiseshell; Silver-washed Fritillary; Meadow Brown; Gatekeeper; Speckled Wood - 22nd, Orley Common (Rob Bogue)
  • Brown Argus - 24th, 2 seen Mincinglake Valey Park (Brian Heasman)
  • Brown Hairstreak (+ other species) - 25th, Preston Down (Rob Bogue)
  • Wall - 27th, 2 seen Middle Tor (Brian Heasman)
  • Wall - 27th, 3 seen Thornworthy Tor (Brian Heasman)
  • Dingy Skipper; Clouded Yellow; Adonis Blue; Common Blue; Small Copper; Hummingbird Hawkmoth  - 28th, Branscombe - Beer Head (Brian Heasman)

July 

  • White-letter Hairstreak - 1st, Drakeford Bridge, Bovey Valley Car Pk (Pete Hurst) - First sighting! 
  • Purple Hairstreak - 1st, Hisley Wood, Bovey Valley, SX784801 (Pete Hirst) - First sighting!
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 3rd, Pullabrook Wood, Bovey Valley Wood (Philip Chambers) 
  • Gatekeeper - 4th, 265 seen Middle Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Meadow Brown - 4th, 69 seen Middle Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 4th, 18 seen Middle Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Marbled White - 4th, 13 seen Middle Soar(Rob Macklin)
  • Grayling - 4th, 6 seen Middle Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Purple Hairstreak - 4th, 4 seen Colyford Common (Roger Laughton)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 4th, Exeter (Julie Mead)
  • Peacock; Painted Lady; Meadow Brown; Dark Green Fritillary; Grayling - 5th, Bolt Head & E Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 6th, Pullabrook Wood, Bovey Valley (Kevin & Jacki Solman) 
  • Silver-washed Fritillary; White Admiral; Brimstone - 6th, Pullabrook Wood, Bovey Valley (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary; White Admiral; Small Skipper; Gatekeeper; Ringlet; Meadow Brown - 7th, Pullabrook Wood, Bovey Valley (Dave Holloway) - photos
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 7th, 6 seen Fir Wood, Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Purple Hairstreak - 7th, 3 seen Fir Wood Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Swallowtail - 9th, Newton Abbot (Rachel Coppen) - NB possible release or escapee
  • Wall - 14th, 2 seen Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • White-letter Hairstreak - 14th, 3-4 seen Central Park, Plymouth (reported to Ellie Knott, Devon Biodiversity Records Centre)
  • Holly Blue - 17th, E Dartmoor NNR (Barry Henwood)
  • Purple Hairstreak - 17th, c.15 seen Aish Tor (David Gregory) 
  • Common Blue; Grayling; Silver-washed Fritillary; Dark Green Fritillary; Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (2nd Brood!) - 17th, Starhole Valley, E Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 20th, Silveridge Wood Loddiswell (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritillary; Purple Hairstreak; Holly Blue - 20th, Hisley Wood, Bovey Valley (Rob Macklin)
  • Large White; Holly Blue; Red Admiral; Painted Lady; Comma; Peacock; Dark Green Fritillary; Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Speckled Wood; Wall; Gatekeeper; Meadow Brown - 24th, Southdown Farm to Soar Mill Cove (Rob Macklin)
  • Clouded Yellow - 25th, Teigngrace Meadow (John Rickett)
  • Red Admiral; Peacock; Comma; Gatekeeper; Ringlet; Large White; Brimstone; Speckled wood; Small Skipper - 25th, Ashclyst Forest (David Jenner)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 25th, Ashclyst Forest (David Jenner) 

June

  • Green Hairstreak - 1st, Emsworthy Reserve, (Anne Redstone) 
  • Common Blue - 1st, Fernworthy Down, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Small Heath - 1st, 3 seen Fernworthy Down, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Green Hairstreak - 1st, 2 seen Fernworthy Down, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 1st, 8 seen Fernworthy Down, Lydford (Rob Bogue)
  • High Brown Fritillary - 3rd, Heddon Valley (Ian Collins) - First sighting!
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 3rd, Aish Tor (David Turrell) 
  • High Brown Fritillary - 11th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) 
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 13th, Garden, Saunton (Maxine Putnam) - First sighting!
  • Marbled White - 13th, 2 seen Middle Soar (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!
  • Silver-studded Blue - 13th, Middle Soar (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!
  • Large Skipper - 13th, Middle Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 13th, 73 seen Middle Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • High Brown Fritillary - 15th, Hembury Woods (David Jenner) 
  • High Brown Fritillary - 15th, Aish Tor (David Jenner)
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 15th, 3 seen Aish Tor (David Jenner) 
  • Ringlet - 16th, 8 seen Weston Mouth (David Selby) - First sighting!
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 16th, 7 seen Roborough Down (Kevin & Jacki Solman) 
  • Meadow Brown -16th, 10 seen Roborough Down (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Brimstone - 16th, 6 seen Roborough Down (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Marbled White - 16th, 5 seen Brixham, SX568916 (Clive Harris) 
  • Wood White - 17th, 8 seen Meeth Quarry (Dave Holloway)
  • Large Skipper - 17th, Meeth Quarry (Dave Holloway)
  • Ringlet - 17th, Meeth Quarry (Dave Holloway)
  • Common Blue - 17th, 10+ seen Meeth Quarry (Dave Holloway)
  • Heath Fritillary - 17th, Lydford Old Railway (Dave Holloway) 
  • Ringlet - 17th, Lydford Old Railway (Dave Holloway)
  • Marsh Fritillary - 17th, 3 seen Knowstone Common (G Preston) - photo
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 17th, 4 seen Knowstone Common (G Preston) 
  • Meadow Brown - 17th, 5 seen Knowstone Common (G Preston)
  • Ringlet - 17th, Knowstone Common (G Preston)
  • Brimstone - 17th, Knowstone Common (G Preston)
  • Marsh Fritillary - 17th, 6 seen Emsworthy Reserve (Rob Bogue)
  • Small Heath - 17th, 2 seen Emsworthy Reserve (Rob Bogue)
  • Meadow Brown - 17th, Emsworthy Reserve (Rob Bogue)
  • Red Admiral - 17th, Emsworthy Reserve (Rob Bogue)
  • High Brown Fritillary - 17th, 6 seen Heddon Valley [inc.1 in Garden! Heddon's Mouth] (Chris & Mandy Dee)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 17th, c.15 seen Heddon Valley (Chris & Mandy Dee)
  • Large Skipper - 17th, Garden, West Down (Chris & Mandy Dee)
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 18th, Aish Tor (Clive Harris)
  • High Brown Fritillary - 18th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 18th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 18th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Red Admiral - 18th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Brimstone - 18th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Small Tortoiseshell - 18th, 2 seen Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Meadow Brown - 18th, lots seen Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Small Heath - 18th, lots seen Aish Tor (Dave Holloway) 
  • Large Skipper - 18th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway)
  • Small Skipper - 18th, Aish Tor (Dave Holloway) - First sighting!
  • Small Skipper - 18th, Braunton Burrows (G Preston) - First sighting!
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 18th, 7 seen Braunton Burrows (G Preston)
  • Small Heath - 18th, 32 seen Braunton Burrows (G Preston)
  • Common Blue - 18th, 50 seen Braunton Burrows (G Preston)
  • Brown Argus - 18th, 6 seen Braunton Burrows (G Preston)
  • Red Admiral - 18th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 18th, c.10 seen Wish Tor (David Jenner) 
  • White Admiral - 18th, 2 seen Great Plantation (Richard Fox) - First Sighting! 
  • Silver-studded Blue - 19th, 8 seen E Budleigh Common (John Keele) 
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 19th, 10 seen E Budleigh Common (John Keele)
  • Ringlet - 19th, 3 seen Soar Mill Valley (Rob Macklin)
  • Comma - 19th, Garden, Harleston (Rob Macklin)
  • Small Skipper - 20th, Dawlish Warren (Phil Chambers)
  • Ringlet - 20th, Dawlish Warren (Phil Chambers)
  • Grayling - 21st, Sharp Tor (Rob Macklin) - First Sighting!
  • Ringlet - 22nd, lots seen Bovey Great Plantation (David Turrell)
  • White Admiral - 23rd, Bovey Great Plantation (David Turrell) 
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 25th, Great Plantation (David Turrell) 
  • White Admiral - 25th, 7 seen Ashclyst Forest (David Jenner) 
  • Silver-washed Fritillary - 25th, 9 seen Ashclyst Forest (David Jenner) 
  • Comma - 25th, 4 seen Hackney Marshes (Justine Payton)
  • Small Tortoiseshell - 25th, Hackney Marshes (Justine Payton)
  • Large Skipper - 25th, Hackney Marshes (Justine Payton)
  • White Admiral; Silver-washed Fritilary; Ringlet; Marbled White + other species - 22nd-25th, Kerswell Downs (David Poole)
  • Gatekeeper - 26th, Aish Tor area (David Turrell) - First sighting! 
  • Gatekeeper - 26th, 3 seen Bolt Head (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!
  • Grayling - 26th, 3 seen Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Marbled White - 26th, Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Meadow Brown - 26th, 91 seen Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 26th, 46 seen Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Small Skipper - 26th, Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Large Skipper - 26th, 2 seen Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Marbled White 26th, 9 seen Bystock Pools (Ray Jones)
  • Ringlet - 26th, Bystock Pools (Ray Jones)
  • Marbled White - 27th, Bircham Valley (Dave Gregory) 

May

  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 2nd, 11 seen Ramshorn Down (Roger Laughton)
  • Small Copper - 2nd, 3 seen Ramshorn Down (Roger Laughton)
  • Brown Argus - 2nd, Dawlish Warren (Steve Ayres) - First sighting!
  • Small Blue - 4th, 3 seen Berry Head (Dave Holloway) 
  • Wall Brown - 4th, 2 seen Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Holly Blue - 4th, seen egglaying on Gooseberry, Teignmouth (James Today)
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 7th, 7 seen Ashclyst Forest (Nick de Cent)
  • Holly Blue  - 7th, 3 seen Ashclyst Forest (Nick de Cent) 
  • Peacock - 7th, 5 seen Ashclyst Forest (Nick de Cent) 
  • Green-veined White - 7th, 4 seen Ashclyst Forest (Nick de Cent)
  • Speckled Wood - 7th, 2 seen Ashclyst Forest (Nick de Cent)
  • Red Admiral - 7th, garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Small Blue - 8th, 20+ seen Berry Head (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Common Blue - 8th, 2 seen Berry Head (Kevin & Jacki Solman) - First sighting!
  • Holly Blue - 8th, 6 seen Berry Head (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Small Copper - 8th, 2 seen Berry Head (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Clouded Yellow - 8th, Berry Head (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Wall Brown - 8th, 3 seen Berry Head (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Large White - 8th, 4 seen Berry Head (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Wood White - 8th, 8 seen Branscombe Undercliff (John Keele)
  • Small Copper - 8th, 5 seen Branscombe Undercliff (John Keele) 
  • Holly Blue - 8th, 15 seen Branscombe Undercliff (John Keele)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 8th, Lydford Old Railway (Andy Brown) 
  • Common Blue - 9th, Dawlish Warren (Steve Ayres)
  • Dingy Skipper - 9th, Braunton Burrows (Grahame Preston)
  • Grizzled Skipper - 9th, Braunton Burrows (Grahame Preston)
  • Brown Argus - 9th, 10 seen Braunton Burrows (Grahame Preston)
  • Common Blue - 9th, 5 seen Braunton Burrows (Grahame Preston)
  • Wall Brown - 10th, Bolt Head (David Jenner) 
  • Small Copper - 10th, Bolt Head (David Jenner)
  • Green Hairstreak - 10th, Bolt Head (David Jenner)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 10th, Bolt Head (David Jenner)
  • Green Hairstreak - 10th, Starehole Valley (David Jenner) 
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 10th, E Soar (David Jenner) 
  • Small Pearl-borderd Fritillary - 10th, Aish Tor (David Turrel) 
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 10th, 50 seen Roborough Down (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Pearl Borderd Fritillary - 10th, Roborough Down (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Small Heath - 10th, 6 seen Roborough Down (Kevin & Jacki Solman) - First sighting!
  • Heath Fritillary - 10th, 5 seen Lydford Old Railway (Rob Bogue) - First sighting!
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 10th, 20+ seen Lydford Old Railway (Rob Bogue)
  • Green-veined White - 10th, Lydford Old Railway & Lydford Village (Rob Bogue)
  • Small Blue - 13th, 4-5 seen Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Common Blue - 13th, 3 seen Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Holly Blue - 13th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Wall Brown - 13th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Green-veined White - 13th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Common Blue - 13th, m & f seen Dawlish Warren (David Jenner) 
  • Brown Argus - 13th, 2 seen Dawlish Warren (David Jenner) 
  • Small Copper - 13th, Dawlish Warren (David Jenner)
  • Small Heath - 13th, Ramshorn Down (David Jenner)
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 13th, Ramshorn Down (David Jenner)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 13th, Ramshorn Down (David Jenner)
  • Green Hairstreak - 13th, Ramsorn Down (David Jenner)
  • Green Hairstreak - 13th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) 
  • Small Heath 13th, Aish Tor (David Turrell) 
  • Dingy Skipper - 13th, Stover Country Park (David Turrell) 
  • Painted Lady - 14th, 2 seen Ramshorn Down (David Turrell)
  • Painted Lady - 14th, Teigngrace Meadow (David Turrell) 
  • Adonis Blue - 14th, Hooken Undercliff, Branscombe (David Jenner) - First sighting!
  • Adonis Blue - 14th, 2 seen Branscombe Undercliff (Brian Heasman) - First sighting! 
  • Wood White - 14th, 20+ seen Hooken Undercliff, Branscombe (David Jenner) 
  • Common Blue - 14th, Hooken Undercliff, Branscombe (David Jenner)
  • Small Copper - 14th, Hooken Undercliff, Branscombe (David Jenner)
  • Marsh Fritillary - 18th, Near Chudleigh Knighton (Brian Heasman) - First sighting! 
  • Wood White - 18th, 15 seen Meeth Quarry (Rob Bogue)
  • Common Blue - 18th, 3 seen Meeth Quarry (Rob Bogue)
  • Small Blue - 21st, 10+ seen Berry Head (Dave Holloway) 
  • Common Blue - 21st, 6+ seen Berry Head (Dave Holloway) 
  • Dingy Skipper - 21st, Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Adonis Blue - 21st, 2 seen Under Hooken, Branscombe (Roger Laughton)
  • Wood White - 21st, 6 seen Under Hooken, Branscombe (Roger Laughton)
  • Wood White - 22nd, 5 seen Culverhole Point (Roger Laughton)
  • Painted Lady - 22nd, East Budleigh (Chris & Margaret Frame)
  •  Large Skipper - 25th, 2 seen Salcombe Hill (John Keele) - First sighting! 
  • Small Copper - 25th, 3 seen Salcombe Hill (John Keele)
  • Heath Fritillary - 25th, c.80 counted Lydford Old Railway (David Jenner) 
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 25th, c.15 counted Lydford Old Railway (David Jenner)
  • Large Skipper - 25th, Orley Common (Richard Fox) - First sighting!
  • Marsh Fritillary - 26th, Emsworthy Reserve (David Turrell) 
  • Painted Lady - 28th, Hartland Abbey (Chris Dee)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 28th, Ashclyst Forest (Richard Lucas)
  • Marsh Fritillary - 28th, Witheridge Moor, Near Rackenfield (Anne Redstone)
  • Small Heath - 28th, Witheridge Moor, Near Racken (Anne Redstone)
  • Meadow Brown - 30th, Elephants' Graveyard (Roger Laughon) - First sighting! 
  • Dark Green Fritillary - 30th, E Soar (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!

April

  • Orange Tip - 2nd, Near Morebath (Mike Braid)
  • Small White - 5th, Watcombe, Torquay (Amanda Hunter) 
  • Small Copper - 6th, Dawlish Warren (Stephen Edwards) - First sighting!
  • Small Copper - 6th, Near Mothcombe (Richard Lucas) - First sighting!
  • Holly Blue  - 6th, 7 seen Torquay (Amanda Hunter) 
  • Small Copper - 7th, 2 seen Bolberry Down (David Turrell)
  • Clouded Yellow - 7th, Mattiscombe Sands, Start (Adam Whitehouse) - First sighting!
  • Small White - 7th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Orange Tip  - 7th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Brimstone - 7th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Speckled Wood  - 7th, Garden Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Small Copper - 8th, 2 seen Bolt Head (Rob Macklin)
  • Wall Brown - 8th, Bolt Head, (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!
  • Wall Brown - 8th, Middle Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Wall Brown - 8th, 4 seen East Soar Coast Path (Kevin & Jacki Solman) - First sighting!
  • Holly Blue - 8th, 4 seen East Soar Coast Path (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Speckled Wood - 8th, 5 seen East Soar Coast Path (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Peacock - 8th, 3 seen East Soar Coast Path (Kevin & Jacki Solman)
  • Speckled Wood - 8th, Garden, Derriford (Dave Gregory)
  • Brimstone - 8th, Buckland (Dave Gregory) 
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 11th, Ramshorn Down (Dave Hopkins) - First sighting!
  • Grizzled Skipper - 16th, Stoneycombe Quarry, Kingskerswell (Phil Johnson) - First sighting!
  • Green-veined White - 16th, 6 seen Coly River (Richard Laughton) - First sighting!
  • Orange Tip - 16th, 3 seen Coly River (Richard Laughton)
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 17th, Aish Tor, (David Turrell) 
  • Wood White - 18th, 3 seen Littlecombe Shoot (Richard Laughton) - First sighting!
  • Green-veined White - 18th, Littlecombe Shoot (Richard Laughton)
  • Small White - 18th, 2 seen Littlecombe Woods (Richard Laughton)
  • Holly Blue - 18th, 15 seen Littlecombe Woods (Richard Laughton)
  • Orange Tip - 18th, 8 seen Littlecombe Woods (Richard Laughton)
  • Orange Tip - 18th, m & f prospecting Garlic Mustard in garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Holly Blue  -  18th, Garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Orange Tip - 18th, Garden, Croyde (Chris O'Brien)
  • Grizzled Skipper - 21st, 6 seen, inc 1 pr in cop, Miltor Mator Common (David Cawthraw) 
  • Wall Brown - 22th, 4 seen Goat Island (Roger Laughton)
  • Dingy Skipper - 23rd, New Quarry embankment, Chudleigh Knighton (Pete Hurst) - First sighting!
  • Large White - 23rd, 6 seen Soar Mill Valley (Rob Macklin) - First sighting!
  • Wall Brown - 23rd, 9 seen Soar Mill Valley (Rob Macklin)
  • Green Hairstreak 23rd, Soar Mill Valley (Rob Macklin)
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 23rd, nr BC reserve, Lydford Forest (Rob Bogue)
  • Dingy Skipper - 25th, "Elephants' Graveyard," SY259897 (Roger Laughton)
  • Green Hairstreak - 25th, "Elephants' Graveyard," SY259897 (Roger Laughton) - First sighting! 
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 26th, 3 seen Haldon Forest (David Jenner)
  • Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 26th, 6 seen, inc pair in cop Yarner Wood (Phil Eden) 
  • Green Hairstreak - 27th, Coast Path, E Prawl-Woodcombe (Nigel Spring & Kathy Henderson, Dorset Branch)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary 27th, Coast Path, E Prawl-Woodcombe (Nigel Spring & Kathy Henderson, Dorset Branch) - First Sighting!
  • Small Blue - 28th, Torquay ( Amanda Hunter) - First sighting!
  • Small Copper - 28th, Start Point (Nigel Spring & Kathy Henderson, Dorset Branch)
  • Wall Brown - 28th, Start Point (Nigel Spring & Kathy Henderson, Dorset Branch)
  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 29th, 2 seen Starehole Valley, E Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Large White - 29th, garden, Paignton (Dave Holloway)
  • Small Copper - 29th, Mothercombe (Dave Gregory)
  • Holly Blue - 29th, pair in cop Mothercombe (Dave Gregory) 

March: 

  • Painted Lady - 2nd, Spreyton (Lesley Whittaker) - First sighting!
  • Large White - 7th, 1 pupa & 2 larvae near Broccoli & Kale, Chudleigh (Pete Hurst) - NB This species overwinters as a pupa so the 2 overwintering larvae are an unusual, albeit increasing, phenomenon 
  • Small Tortoiseshell  - 9th, Mortonhampstead (Mary Irving) 
  • Small Tortoiseshell - 9th, No Location (James Today)
  • Red Admiral - 9th, No Location (James Today)
  • Brimstone - 9th, No Location (Marjory Taylor)
  • Peacock - 13th, No Location (Marjory Taylor)
  • Painted Lady - 13th, Gidley Bridge (Peter Reay)
  • Painted Lady - 13th, 6 seen Bolt Head to Goat Rock, Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Peacock - 13th, 2 seen Bolt Head to Goat Rock, Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Painted Lady - 13th, Dartington (Amanda Hunter)
  • Small Tortoiseshell  - 14th, South Brent (Peter Reay)
  • Speckled Wood - 19th, Nightingale Pk, Torquay (Amanda Hunter)
  • Comma - 19th, 2 seen Nightingale Pk, Torquay (Amanda Hunter)
  • Brimstone - 19th, 2 seen Nightingale Pk, Torquay (Amanda Hunter)
  • Peacock - 19th, Nightingale Pk, Torquay (Amanda Hunter)
  • Brimstone - 19th, Bovey Tracey CP (John Summerscales)
  • Painted Lady - 21st, Light House, Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Painted Lady - 21st, South Brent (Peter Reay)
  • Speckled Wood - 22nd, Sidmouth (Richard & Lorraine Ellison)
  • Brimstone - 25th, 2 seen Beara, South Brent (Peter Reay) 
  • Peacock - 25th, Gidley Bridge (Peter Reay)
  • Red Admiral - 25th, 3 seen Gidley Bridge (Peter Reay)
  • Red Admiral - 25th, Sidmouth (Roger Bristow)
  • Comma - 25th, 3 seen Sidmouth (Roger Bristow)
  • Small White - 26th, Ottery (Roger Bristow) - First sighting!
  • Orange Tip - 26th, Liverton (Jon Martin) - First sighting!
  • Holly Blue - 26th, Starcross, (Keith Walker) - First sighting!
  • Green-veined White - 26th, Bovey Tracey (Steve Ayres) - First sighting!
  • Brimstone - 26th, 3 seen Trinity Hill (Roger Laughton)
  • Peacock - 26th, 2 seen Trinity Hill (Roger Laughton)
  • Orange Tip - 27th, Stidston, South Brent (Peter Reay)
  • Peacock - 27th, Plymbridge Woods (Dave Gregory)
  • Holly Blue - 27th, 2 seen Colation Raleigh Common (David Land)
  • Speckled Wood - 27th, Starehole Valley, E Soar (Rob Macklin)
  • Painted Lady - 30th, Berry Head (Dave Holloway)
  • Speckled Wood - 30th, Mel Tor (Dave Turrell) 

February:

  • Red Admiral - 7th, Sidmouth (Roger Bristow)
  • Brimstone - 15th, Bovey Tracey (Roger Brothwood) - Fist sighting!
  • Small Tortoiseshell - 16th, Westward Ho! (John Bradbeer)  
  • Small Tortoiseshell - 18th, Heddons Mouth (John Bradbeer)
  • Comma  - 18th, Broadsands, Paignton (Clive Harris) - First sighting! 
  • Red Admiral - 18th, Cornwood, 3 seen nectaring on Snowdrops (Dave Gregory) 
  • Brimstone - 20th, Stover Country Park, 20 counted! (Mike Godfrey) 
  • Red Admiral - 24th, Railway Station, Newton Abbot (John Worth)

January:

  • Red Admiral - 3rd, Topsham (Ray Jones) - First sighting!
  • Red Admiral - 3rd, Dartington (Amanda Hunter) - First sighting! 
  • Red Admiral - 11th, Torquay (Sue Collman) 
  • Peacock - 11th, No Location (Ashleigh Rosier) - First Sighting!
  • Red Admiral - 19th, Central Exeter (Roger Bristow)
  • Speckled Wood - 22nd, Clennon Valley, Paignton (Clive Harris) - First Sighting! 
  • Red Admiral - 22nd, Sidmouth (Roger Bristow)

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November:

  • Holly Blue - 28th, Plymouth (Tor Elm)

December:

  • Brimstone - 23rd, Okehampton (Alan Flack)
  • Red Admiral - 29th, Dartmouth (Peter Shaw)
  • Red Admiral - 30th, Tor Cross (Stephen Wadsworth)