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hairstreak - use in sentences
Converse of object
- include: Over 20 species of butterfly have been recorded including the white letter hairstreak.
- see: Also Adonis Blue, and Green Hairstreak seen near Splash Point.
Adjective modifier
- purple: Purple Hairstreak was found on many more sites largely due to the efforts of Graham Foggitt.
- green: The sexes of the green hairstreak are hard to tell apart.
- brown: Regionally, only brown hairstreak, pearl-bordered fritillary, high brown fritillary and marsh fritillary show higher rates of decline over the same period.
- blue: Three pictures taken in close succession of a blue spot hairstreak.
- white: Over 20 species of butterfly have been recorded including the white letter hairstreak.
Modifies a noun
- butterfly: Black hairstreak butterflies, which are found only in the wet sticky clay woods of the East Midlands, are plentiful.
- caterpillar: The Purple Hairstreak caterpillars found in May will have pupated in June and were in flight around the Oak canopy in mid July.
- egg: This school is going on a Brown Hairstreak egg hunt later this winter, which should give a marked jump in numbers found!
Noun used with modifier
- white-letter: In 1995, the first white-letter hairstreak was recorded.
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