How To Use Hairstreak In A Sentence
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Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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On the ground, patches of yellow tormentil, blue-purple and red-magenta milkwort were growing at regular intervals, with small heath, small copper, green hairstreak and other butterfly species putting in the occasional appearance.
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The point was brought home to me last summer when I saw a purple hairstreak.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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It seems extraordinary how I could have passed 30 years in the middle of purple hairstreak country having only seen a singleton.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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It is hoped that birds such as the lapwing, skylark and redshank will increasingly use the sites as well as butterflies such as the green hairstreak.
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As if to confirm this, a green hairstreak butterfly appeared and its green-gold brilliance together with the cowslips seemed to fill the column of air above that place with a burst of light.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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On the ground, patches of yellow tormentil, blue-purple and red-magenta milkwort were growing at regular intervals, with small heath, small copper, green hairstreak and other butterfly species putting in the occasional appearance.
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Green hairstreak butterflies are a feature of early summer when natterjack toads may be breeding in shallow pools.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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It was a treat, as well, to see the rare white letter hairstreak butterfly, that spends most of its time in the tops of elm trees, come down to take nectar from some bramble blossom, close enough to see the initial ‘W’ on its underwing.
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The Peaks are also a stronghold for the striking green hairstreak butterfly and the emperor moth, which feeds on heather.
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Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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Mr Krause said an increase in heathland generally would increase the county's population of adders, rare butterflies, such as the Green Hairstreak and Purple Hairstreak, as well as nightjars and woodlarks.
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What will remain uppermost in the mind are surely the banks of dwarf elder Sambucus ebulus, also known as danewort, with their hordes of nectaring Hairstreaks.
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Mints. wild bergamot, and yarrow, attract the American Painted Lady, Anise Swallowtail, Gray Hairstreak, Monarch, and Red Admiral.
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For the last two weeks I've seen a bunch of small hairstreak butterflies flying around one of the bushes outside.
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There are many butterflies including marbled white and green hairstreak and the green tiger beetle also occurs.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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Trees stabilize the ecosystem for butterflies like the great purple hairstreak.
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The leaves serve as host for the larvae of two butterflies, the white hairstreak and the brown duskywing.
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On the ground, patches of yellow tormentil, blue-purple and red-magenta milkwort were growing at regular intervals, with small heath, small copper, green hairstreak and other butterfly species putting in the occasional appearance.
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The purple emperor may have eluded us, but this purple hairstreak is a rewarding compensation.
Country diary: Fermyn Wood, Northamptonshire
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Wetter areas are home to the silken surfaces of green-veined whites, while some heathlands host the dazzling green hairstreak.
Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
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In the past three years two other species, the holly blue and purple hairstreak, have been spotted for the first time on National Trust properties in Scotland.
Weatherwatch: Global warming is evident in Scotland
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When Matthew Oates, the National Trust's roving butterfly expert, first described this affliction, it sounded quite pleasant: by August, butterfly lovers are so knackered, all they can do is sit in an armchair and wait for the last butterfly of summer, the brown hairstreak, to descend from an ash tree.
How I became a lepidopterist
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The purple hairstreak is a glorious but relatively small butterfly strongly associated with oaks.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral
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