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Message: <blockquote data-quote="harry eales" data-source="post: 1618759" data-attributes="member: 3028">Hello Dave,Many thanks for your trouble, it's appreciated. There have been tales of specimens breeding here many decades ago, but none have withstood much scrutiny.I can understand the secrecy, sadly entomological 'twitchers' are likely to trample the area where such rarities are reported and are likely to trample any larva or pupae underfoot. I've actually witnessed this happening on a Butterfly Conservation Field meeting some years ago. The site was very small in area and some 10 visitors literally flattend the vegetation on the site looking for the butterflies.Harry</blockquote>