The site and the surrounding area provides habitat for the High Brown Fritillary, a butterfly which is rare and declining nationally.

A nationally rare butterfly the High Brown Fritillary (Argynnis adippe) occurs on this site.

As a field naturalist, he has researched the High Brown Fritillary butterfly on Dartmoor and worked with badgers, also in Devon.

The High brown fritillary can be found in a number of locations including: Asia, China, Europe, Russia, United Kingdom, Wales.

The High Brown Fritillary (Fabriciana adippe) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family, native from Europe across mainland Asia to Japan.

The figures show that the worst hit species - such as the high brown fritillary, a woodland species that has already seen precipitious declines in previous decades - fell by 69%.

"The big bright orange and black high brown fritillary has its UK headquarters on the Morecambe Bay Limestones of south Cumbria and north Lancashire.

In addition, there have been a total of 35 species of butterflies recorded, including the nationally-rare High Brown Fritillary (Fabriciana adippe), and many moth and dragonfly species are also present.

Twenty species of butterfly have been recorded in the valley including the nationally scarce Marsh Fritillary (Eurodryas aurinia) and nationally vulnerable High Brown Fritillary (Argynnis adippe).

It is the foodplant of the Pearl bordered fritillary, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Silver-washed Fritillary and High Brown Fritillary butterfly.

Bugle, bramble and thistle flowers are favourite nectar sources of the Pearl-bordered fritillary, High brown fritillary, Small pearl-bordered fritillary and Dark Green Fritillary.

The Dark Green Fritillary uses violets within Bracken mosaics frequently consisting of one-third Bracken and two-thirds grass, often on the edges of suitable High Brown Fritillary habitat.

Key AONB species include Dormouse, Barbastelle, Skylark, High Brown Fritillary Butterfly, Great Crested Newt, Adder and Black Poplar.

In addition there are 15 SSSIs in the area; one of these, Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve, is home to some rare species of butterfly including the High Brown Fritillary.

There are also 35 species of butterflies such as Purple Emperor, Brown Hairstreak, Black Hairstreak, Wood White, the Silver Washed Fritillary, High Brown Fritillary, Marsh Fritillary, Pearl-Bordered Fritillary and Small Pearly-Bordered Fritillary.

Fabriciana adippe at funet.

The High Brown Fritillary (Fabriciana adippe) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family, native from Europe across mainland Asia to Japan.

In addition, there have been a total of 35 species of butterflies recorded, including the nationally-rare High Brown Fritillary (Fabriciana adippe), and many moth and dragonfly species are also present.