I guess that now Lollipops are out and Crowd Shots are in. The patience and skill that these photos demonstrate improves every year and as always amazes me. Congratulations everyone ..... and a happy New Year to all.

I live a mile west of Oaken Wood in Surrey, and here there are strenuous efforts to extend the range of the Wood White, and it might be working. Also in Surrey there is an attempt to re-introduce the beaver. Now we all know that the last beaver was turned into a tippet or a fur hat centuries ago and...

Large White
Never pupate under a cobweb

I'm no expert but my guess is Pempelia palumbella usually found on heather. https://www.norfolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?bf=14420 but I'm usually wrong.

Your lack of sightings mirrors mine, or vice versa. You are 50 miles SW of me. The year started with intermittent sightings of Brimstones but apart from the flush of Speckled Woods everything else is remarkable for its absence, One Common Blue, a single Small Copper and Holly Blue, two or three Smal...

Some of you may remember when I sowed this field with wildflowers and put in the hedge. Each year butterfly, bee and other insect numbers increased until this year. The bees are doing well but apart from Speckled Woods on the boundary other species appear only occasionally as singletons. I've had to...

Thanks for this; it may explain as to why I always see my first Holly Blues close to my Pyracantha hedge rather than near the ivy-covered trees.

If you put your trap back outside in a shady corner and cover it till Mr and Mrs Robin, their relatives the Tit family, and sundry other feathered friends have gone to bed, then take the cover off. More moths survive, though the odd spider can get a feast.

I really hate to tell you that Inachis io is now a moth. There it was happily at home in my moth trap when I opened it in the morning. Photographs never lie, so here's the evidence
Happy mothing

On the last "warmish" night in January I had 29 specimens of 7 species in my Robinson trap. I am usually inspired to put a trap out when I spot moths in my car headlights when returning from the local hostelry.

I planted a single Alder Buckthorn and grow it as a tree adjacent to my field hedge which has purging buckthorn in it. I have only seen Brimstone larvae, and only in small numbers, on the Alder Buckthorn.

Thanks, that seems to fit the bill. It's behaviour was also qite unlike any Small White that enjoy my brassicas, it was my ancient 'phone camera that let me down.

Does a male Small White ever appear without the black tips to the wings and with a white underside or should I be considering something else?

As I wasted a couple of quid on my lottery ticket I noticed a National Lottery Fund announcement which seems to favour a few butterflies and some other creatures that their proponents favour http://www.naturebackfromthebrink.org/about/ I fear that most of the funding will go to the management of the...

My thanks to everyone who supported the petition. I always feel that the powers that be take no notice, but for me it's the only way to say that I object. Having said that, the Leader of Surrey County Council has recently said that there will now be no referendum to put the rates up by 15% in order ...

The Council’s plan to cut funding under its 50-year agreement with the Surrey Wildlife Trust to zero by 2021 will result in all the jobs of the Trust’s 16 rangers becoming redundant. Few of these very experienced and dedicated staff are going to be re-employed in the much smaller organisation that w...

Dear Sir Pete, I'm missing the New Posts link, so instead of just clicking to see what I've missed I have to actually look at the dates of the posts. I have the honour to remain, Sir, UKB's most humble and obedient servant. PS it could just be me because I use ad blockers and a proxy server and I do...

On the same day that BC send out an email headed "Bag yourself a butterfly bargain!"

Pete Eeles wrote:Thanks Paul! I'll try and get hold of a copy. Are references for the names provided?
Cheers,
- Pete

Postscript books have Bugs Britannica remaindered at £9.99 http://www.psbooks.co.uk/products/scien ... britannica