Cinquefoil skipper of the forewing and the usually deeper red-brown underwings. The cinquefoil skipper flies in July and August. The larval food plant is spring cinquefoil ("Potentilla neumanniana"). Cinquefoil skipper The cinquefoil skipper ("Pyrgus cirsii") is a species of skipper butterfly (family Hesperiidae). It has a scattered distribution in central and southern Europe, and several isolated populations in north-eastern Turkey and in Armenia. This species has a wingspan of 26–28 mm and, typically of its genus, can be very difficult to identify in the field. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the carline skipper ("P. carlinae") as the two are known
Lulworth Cove Lulworth Estate, an estate held by the Welds wealthy landowning family. Land to the east is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used for tank training, only open on weekends and holidays. The coast and land to the north and around the village is owned and managed by the Lulworth Estate (see Lulworth Castle). Each year, over 250,000 people walk across the hill linking the cove to Durdle Door. Stair Hole, less than half a mile west is an infant cove which suggests what Lulworth Cove would have looked like a few hundred thousand years ago. The sea has