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Meadow Brown

Meadow Brown
Maniola jurtina

 It is one of our commonest summer butterflies which loves the open
grassy places on the Kinson Common. From June to the end of August
it greatly favours the Poole Lane Meadows where this photogrpah was
taken. Numbers start to gradually decrease mid-August, and a smaller
brown butterfly, the Hedge Brown, then becomes the dominant species
in the open grasslands on site.