Newly released figures from the charity Butterfly Conservation show that the endangered wood white increased in number by 600% in Britain last summer after a major decline, while the rare marsh fritillary increased by 134% and the silver-spotted skipper, once on the brink of extinction, rallied with a 78% rise. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Last and least, a dead Epargyreus clarus silver-spotted skipper. ❋ AYDIN (2008)
Magnified and enhanced, a thick crescent stood ruddy, mottled - and silver-spotted with seas. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1998)
She saw him from a distance, turned in her saddle, lifting her polo-mallet in recognition; and as he came, pushing his way across the clearing, almost shoulder-deep through weeds, from which the silver-spotted butterflies rose in clouds, she stripped off one stained glove, and held out her hand to him. ❋ Unknown (1899)
To bait a hook was not agreeable to the girl; she managed to do it, however, then shouldering her pole she walked across the road and down to the left, through rank grasses and patches of milkweed, bergamot, and queen's lace, scattering a cloud of brown and silver-spotted butterflies. ❋ William Dodge Stevens (1899)
"I belong to my father," said she, contracting and disengaging her feminine garments to step after him in the cold silver-spotted dusk of the winter woods. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
So it is much better that one should take one's ease here in a corner between high garden-walls, where the air lies tepid and soft and still -- to sit on the sunny side, where a bench curves into a niche of the wall, to sit there end gaze upon the shimmering green acanthus in the roadside ditches, upon the silver-spotted thistles, and the pale-yellow autumn flowers. ❋ Anna [Translator] Grabow (1866)
There are a few winners already: the beautiful comma is moving north and the rare silver-spotted skipper has done well thanks to hotter summers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Adonis blue, the silver-spotted skipper and the heath fritillary have all been saved from near extinction using ideas from Thomas's scientific research. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When thou shalt hate the silk so fondly sought And wish thy silver-spotted gauze unbought; * ❋ Unknown (1812)
-- and we sincerely believe they are not -- the many predictions of biological extinctions associated with those projections are almost certainly Thomas et al. (2001) documented an unusually rapid expansion of the ranges of two butterfly species (the silver-spotted skipper butterfly and the brown argus butterfly) along with two cricket species (the long-winged cone-head and Roesel's bush cricket). ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Since you left Paris," said I, knotting my black silver-spotted tie in the (also unpaid for) mirror over the mantel-piece, "I have been very successful, you know. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Ecology and declining status of the silver-spotted skipper butterfly ( ❋ Unknown (2009)
The re-expansion and improving status of the silver-spotted skipper butterfly ( ❋ Unknown (2009)
