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![]() The story from Suffolk and in particular Newmarket by Rob Parker and Sharon Hearle Link sections on this page . . .
Rob Parker is the County Butterfly Recorder for Suffolk Sharon Hearle is Butterfly Conservation's regional officer for the East of England. THE STORY FROM SUFFOLK BY ROB PARKER White-letter Hairstreak - Progression in Suffolk 1980-85 survey. Found in 54 tetrads (map in Mendel's Suffolk Atlas)
RECENT NEWS May 2007
An amazing veteran elm pollard - a new discovery made by Roger & Stella Wolfe - looks to be in good health just outside the village of Denston. The girth is estimated at about 4 to 5 metres, and it sits on private farmland, close to a public footpath; English type, probably. Nearby, an elm copse surrounds an old pond, and we will be investigating this in the summer for White-letter hairstreak. The photos show the pollard from afar (the veteran oak is on the left) and closer-up, to show the pollarding. The 12 mature smooth-leaved elms at Haverhill Sports Centre which were reported to Elm Map in 2003 have been brutally lopped by their owners (St Edmundsbury District Council). This drew attention to them, and we discovered that they were under threat of a Planning proposal which would fell 5 of them to make way for a drive through restaurant adjacent to a multiplex cinema. Fortunately, the local protest was sufficiently loud for the Council to take note, and they have slowed the application down, although it will probably re-surface at some time in the future, possibly re-arranged to save the trees. Although disfigured, the trees do appear to be in good health, and we discovered that some years ago they were "injected" against DED which appears to have been beneficial in this case Rob Parker May 2007 WHITE-LETTER HAIRSTREAK IN NEWMARKET SUFFOLK BY SHARON HEARLE White-letter Hairstreak is a Local Biodiversity Action Plan species in Suffolk, and in 2003 I was intrigued to see whether
it could be found in Newmarket knowing that there was a well known colony on Wych Elm along Devil's Dyke
just over the Suffolk border in Cambridgeshire. It was easy to pick out Elm in the spring and soon it
was clear that Wych Elm was surprisingly abundant in Newmarket. Elm formed an important part of roadside
hedges and other hedges/shelter belts separating paddocks and former paddocks now built on. There is a cycle
of tree death from disease but re-growth is rapid.
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