BUTTERFLIES IN IPSWICH OLD CEMETERY
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A Butterfly Survey of The Old Cemetery, Ipswich TM1745, 24 April - 6 October 2022 The cemetery is bordered to the north by Belvedere Road and The New Cemetery though this has been succeeded by The Millennium Cemetery about 1000 metres to the north. One the west side it is bordered by back gardens of Tuddenham Road and Tuddenham Avenue, to the south by new housing development and to the east by a steep bank with the Ipswich to Felixstowe railway on the other side. In length The Old Cemetery is approximately 480 metres with a width of 420 metres. The same peripheral route around the cemetery was followed on each of the 22 visits, but not as a transect.
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Nectar sources A few species were dominant in seasonal order: late winter flowering purple Crocuses, Dandelions, Saxifrage, Red Clover, Hawkweed, Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Bramble, Yarrow, autumn flowering Crocuses and Ivy. Other less abundant nectar sources again in seasonal order were Aubretia, Primrose, Primula, Cowslip, Hedge Garlic, Germander Speedwell, Spanish Bluebell, Sowthistle, Dove’s-foot Cranesbill, White Clover, Valerian (one on a grave and a larger plant by a path), Herb Robert, Hebe (growing outside the house just inside the northern gate), and Lavender. Most of the above were growing close to paths, between graves or on the railway bank.
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autumn A grave covered with dandelions and Spanish Bluebells.
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Showing the profusion flowering crocuses.
Red Valerian growing near one of the A luxuriant growth of lavender on one paths. grave.
Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc. 58 (2022)