Editorial

Contents

Editorial 3 2009 Butterfly Report 4 Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey 2009 8 Purple Hairstreaks in an Ipswich Garden 15 Roosting Orange-tip 16 Butterflies and Water 17 Decisions 17 International Symposium 18 Field Meetings 20 2006 - A Year of Grand Surprises 22 Martlesham Heath 25 Remaining Events of 2010 26 What’s In a Name? The Painted Lady 27 The Great Apollo Hunt. Epilogue 28 Editorial Copy Date 30 Suffolk Branch Contacts Back Cover

Editorial by Peter Maddison There is little room for an editorial so we move straight into the nitty-gritty of Suffolk butterflies. Rob Parker presents an extended report on our 2009 butterflies, Peter Dare analyses last year’s WCBS, we have a number of articles regarding observations of butterfly behaviour in gardens and woodland, and Richard Stewart poses an intriguing question about human behaviour.

We have three events in ‘Save our Butterflies’ week. Trudie Willis has a ‘must visit’ butterfly garden at Aldeburgh which will be open on Sunday 25th July. In the south of the county at Stoke by Nayland, Tracey Hayter will be opening her Stewardship Scheme farm with established wildflower/butterfly meadows on Sunday 1st August. In the evening of Wednesday 28th July the Ipswich Wildlife Rangers will hold a moth night at Orwell Country Park. Details of our many summer events are on our website www.suffolkbutterflies.org.uk or refer to the Contacts page in this newsletter. Members and friends will be most welcome at all these events.