It was a taste of the Mediterranean down at the Buckle By-pass Small Blue work party today. Temperatures must have hit 27 degrees or more in the sunshine and the dedicated team in attendance were richly rewarded with sightings of four Long-tailed Blues, half a dozen Clouded Yellows, Painted Ladies, Red Admirals, Wall Browns, Common Blues, Small Coppers, Large, Small and Green-veined White and singles of Peacock, Speckled Wood and Comma. To add to the European flavour a couple of Vestal Moths, mature Humming-bird Hawk-moth larvae, singing Southern Field Crickets, Southern Green Shieldbug nymphs and other French delights were in assemblage with mature Fox Moth caterpillars, Four-spotted Spiders (one of which caught an egging Clouded Yellow) and a number of viviparous lizards that scuttled away. Thank you so much to the members of Seaford Natural History Society and Sussex Branch members who attended over the two days. You all deserve medals.  A huge amount of Cotoneaster was dug up using picks and mattocks and the resulting soil disturbance will hopefully germinate some of the Kidney Vetch seedlings that have been submerged under a sea of alien invasion for the last few years. With a bit of luck the Small Blue will have a reasonable amount of new food-plant to lay on in a couple of years` time. Thank you again one and all. Dave.