Butterfly Conservation Dorset Branch

Ringlet

Aphantopus hyperantus

 
 
When to see: June to End August.
Peak: Mid June to Early August
Habitat: Damp long grass, Bracken
Where to see: Cashmoor, Clubmen's Down, Deadmoor Common, Duncliffe Wood, Fifehead Wood, Fontmell Down, Hod Hill, Lydlinch Common, Melbury Down, Piddle's Wood, Sovell Down, Stubhampton Bottom, Ballard Down, Corfe Castle Mound, Higher Hyde, Brackett's Coppice, Cerne Abbas, Kingcombe Stones, Lorton Meadows, Portland Broadcroft, Powerstock Railway, Badbury Rings, Garston Wood, Upton Heath North
Foodplants:

Grasses, Tufted Hair, Couch, Meadow

Rough Meadow Grass

Behaviour: Perch/Patrol
   

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