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Message: <blockquote data-quote="harry eales" data-source="post: 1631224" data-attributes="member: 3028">Hello Peter,I'm over the 'Flu' thanks. The term 'Help' can have a few meanings. In the context I used the word, I meant that it was of no significance to the occurrence of either the Large Blue or Large Copper that were introduced back into the U/K in a different sub-specific form.Certainly things have been discovered about the Large Blue that perhaps weren't previously understood, although even a numpty like me, knows that wild Thyme doesn't grow in deep grass, it's always on very thin sparse and stony soils, otherwise it gets choked out. The original sites for Large Blue have been well described in the entomological literature, so recent findings shouldn't be that much of a surprise.Heck, Frowhawk discovered the life cycle of the Large Blue nearly a century ago. So it's not exactly new.It appears to me to be a shame that some twenty or more sites have been restored or adapted simply for a foreign sub-species of Large Blue, when there are other, now rare, indiginous British Butterflies that need considerable assistance to continue to survive here.So, what do we do? Wait until an indigenous species becomes extinct and then re-introduce a foreign sub-species to make up for its loss?????  I don't think so.O/K, I may be a crusty old curmudgeon, but I'd rather see indigenous species helped, rather than have a foreign sub-species introduced to replace a British race that has become extinct.Rant over, lol.Harry</blockquote>

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