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Message: <blockquote data-quote="harry eales" data-source="post: 1616854" data-attributes="member: 3028">Call me a cynic, but I am always suspicious when several specimens of a very rare migrant species turn up on the same site, at more or less the same time.Whilst I will admit that it is possible that these current sightings are possibly the progeny of an earlier visitation by a fertile female, the odds are very much against it.Unfortunately there are some people who are quite willing to obtain specimens of many species from places here in Britain or abroad simply to release them in a place where they are likely to be readily found.I know of one breeder of British Butterflies who regularly releases large numbers of High Brown Fritillaries into areas where it has not been previously recorded. That is by no means the only species he releases either. This particular individual seems to have a grudge against both Butterfly Conservation and Natural England (recently known as English Nature) and goes out of his way to deliberately create what are essentially false records of species that are not present there due to a natural expansion of their range.Sadly, a small number of people seen to like introducing certain species into areas where they live (even if their existance there is transient) simply because they like to see these insects in their gardens, others do it for more perverse reasons, to the great annoyance of dedicated recorders like myself who have spent a lifetime building up a reliable record of the Lepidoptera in my own local counties.This 'seeding' of species doesn't just happen in southern England, it has also happened in my own area in north-east England, although the species concerned here was a day flying moth.Harry</blockquote>

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