A couple of photos from Sam Ellis of a Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary at Godlingston Heath taken on 11/06/2022.
This is the first sighting of a SPBF reported to Dorset BC this year – two days earlier than the first sighting of one last year. It was once a common butterfly throughout most of Britain but is now lost to most of its former range in the east of the country and it is good to see that this small colony is still surviving.