White-letter Hairstreak - the national situation

Two important books were originally published - The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain & Ireland, covering the recording period of 1995 to 1999 and including historic records was published in 2001 - and in 2006, The State of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, covering the period 2000-2004.

In 2010 Butterfly Conservation published an Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland which covered the period 2005-2009. Distribution maps were published in 2015 to cover the period 2010-2014.

The White-letter Hairstreak maps still shows many of our records and those of other recorders encouraged by our work.



The maps do not reproduce well on a webpage at low resolution unless you zoom in but can be viewed and expanded side by side in pdf format (1995-2009 maps only at present).

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References:
Asher et al., 2001, The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, Oxford University Press.
Fox et al., 2006, The State of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, Pisces Publications.
Fox, R., & Asher, J., 2010 Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, Butterfly Conservation.
Atlas of UK Butterflies 2010-2014, Butterfly Conservation.