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Article: : Urban Refuge; NEWS from the city centre continues to astound. Painted ladies, migrant butterflies which were reported crossing the Pyrenees in May, had reached Liverpool by June 6.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2002
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Byline: Bob Hughes
As yet only in small numbers, two were seen in Princes Dock during the Mersey River Festival and another even stayed for a few days on the rockery at the bottom of Byrom Street by Liverpool Museum. Here, where the mistle-thrushes had an exceptional three broods this year and even tried for a record fourth, seven species of butterflies have been seen: small tortoiseshell, peacock, holly blue, small and large white, even brimstone and now painted lady, with a promise of more to come in the grasses and brambles along Hunter Street up to Christian Street and New Islington (where house sparrows have regained a city centre foothold).
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