"Hello my name is Iain Stafford - I am a Bolsover Countryside Partnership Ranger working for Derbyshire County Council. Right at this present time we are stood in an area we call the Butterfly Cutting. This is on the Teversal Trail; it's a former railway cutting from when the railway line came through here. What makes this area quite good is the fact that it is quite sheltered. We have the limestone outcrops on either side where it was quarried to put the cutting through, butterflies like to bask on this limestone so you will get all manner of species on there, you might even find a Wall butterfly on there, quite rare, quite a small brown butterfly.
"On the grassland itself the common species of butterfly that will find on here is the bright blue Common Blue butterfly, you will also see a brown butterfly down here which could either be the female Common Blue butterfly or it could be the Brown Argus. Very hard to distinguish between the 2 of them, the female Common Blue has little blue hairs along the side of her body whilst the Brown Argus is completely brown. All the common species of butterfly you find down here and in good numbers as well.
"There is wild strawberry in here; it’s one of those few plants that Dingy Skipper which has been recorded down here. The Dingy Skipper is quite a weak flying brown butterfly, it hold its wing slightly different to most other butterflies, it looks more like a moth when you start looking at it but they like areas of bare ground which there are patches of bare earth within this sward here."