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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 3594191" data-attributes="member: 12449">No, land use is basically unchanged in this area, at least in the last decade - abandoned meadow/low intensity use meadow. Potentially part of the answer is that the species have been going undetected earlier, but this is hard to imagine for the very visible Marbled White - even just myself I have visited the area in the past without seeing any and, after first discovering them last year, I subsequently visited the area extensively ...from the total of 65, which I thought was impressive, clearly numbers have soared to this year's massive totals.As for Meleager's Blue, it would seem there has been a clear increase this year, but I suspect this has quite probably been overlooked - for a species that does strike me as highly mobile/dispersive (as Marbled White could be), my discovery of several at a locality 40 km further north suggests to me these have not colonised merely in the last two years.</blockquote>