Wurzel
Cracking diary from your holiday last year. My favourite is the Lang's Short Tailed Blue on Day 5 Part 1. Those marine blue eye spots are far more prominent than the one I saw in France a couple of years ago. They almost sparkle.
Kind Regards
Kev
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- Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:01 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Wurzel
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- Fri Apr 10, 2020 7:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Kev Ling
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Re: Kev Ling
Thanks Wurzel, I was lucky enough to have several eggs laid on my Garlic Mustard. With the help of some fine netting, I managed to protect the final instar caterpillars from predation and kept an eye on where they pupated. No after many months of waiting, I hoep to see my first ever Orang Tip hatch....
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:51 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Kev Ling
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Re: Kev Ling
At last Easter weekend and I have some limited time off work to enjoy the garden. With Millie the spaniel needing a walk, I have a quiet route planned to hopefully bag my first Orange Tip on the wing. I say on the wing, because I have already seen my first one of the year, albeit in pupal form in my...
- Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:41 pm
- Forum: Swallowtail
- Topic: Swallowtail - Favourite Photo 2019
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Re: Swallowtail - Favourite Photo 2019
My offerings are from Strumpshaw Fen on 3rd June 2019. A fantastic morning spent with Patrick Barkham and other UK Butterfly members. When I look out of the window at storm after storm it seems a world away.
Kind Regards
Kev
Kind Regards
Kev
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 2:33 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pete Eeles
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Re: Pete Eeles
Pete,
It was wonderful to meet you yesterday and thank you for attending our Branch AGM. Your talk was inciteful and entertaining. I particularly loved the account of the Large Blue larva.
Guy,
Can I also say how happy I was to meet you yesterday too.
Kind Regards
Kev Ling
It was wonderful to meet you yesterday and thank you for attending our Branch AGM. Your talk was inciteful and entertaining. I particularly loved the account of the Large Blue larva.
Guy,
Can I also say how happy I was to meet you yesterday too.
Kind Regards
Kev Ling
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 8:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Kev Ling
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Re: Kev Ling
Ramsey Wood - Near Ipswich I visited my local Silver Washed Fritillary patch at the weekend, where numbers were building nicely. I saw 15 in total including a female and this lovely example, which I think is ab Confluens Ramsey Wood - 7.7 (18).JPG Ramsey Wood - 7.7 (19).JPG Ramsey Wood - 7.7 (15).JP...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 8:04 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Wurzel
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Re: Wurzel
Wurzel, Loving those Pearls at Bentley Wood, they look amazing as do the Marshies. I like how your diary runs a few weeks behind. Whilst everyone is posting Emperors, Purple Hairstreaks and Admirals, it's nice to be taken back to spring.
Regards
Kev
Regards
Kev
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 8:00 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Padfield
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Re: Padfield
Guy, I have been thoroughly enjoying your diary from Switzerland. It's a country I adore and have been fortunate to visit a couple of times. Every time I see you diaries, the longing to return gets even greater. Flying back from Geneva, was that due to you being based in the Vaud or Rhone Valley? My...
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:20 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Silver Washed Fritillary ab
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Silver Washed Fritillary ab
Hi,
Photographed this Silver Washed Fritillary in Suffolk today and was wondering if it is perhaps ab Confluens.
I would be grateful if anyone could confirm. Kind Regards
Kev
Photographed this Silver Washed Fritillary in Suffolk today and was wondering if it is perhaps ab Confluens.
I would be grateful if anyone could confirm. Kind Regards
Kev
- Mon Jul 01, 2019 7:53 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Wurzel
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Re: Wurzel
Wurzel,
Nice photos of the Brimstone courtship. It's always nice to see some different behaviour. Nice Marshies too, but the prize goes to the Brown Argus on the flower head, perfect shot.
Regards
Kev
Nice photos of the Brimstone courtship. It's always nice to see some different behaviour. Nice Marshies too, but the prize goes to the Brown Argus on the flower head, perfect shot.
Regards
Kev
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: millerd
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Re: millerd
Dave,
Cracking diary this week. Love the Heath Frits. I normally do an annual trip to Hockley Woods and Hadleigh CP, but alas not this year. Nice SSBs. When fresh they are one of the most beautiful butterflies.
Regards
Kev
Cracking diary this week. Love the Heath Frits. I normally do an annual trip to Hockley Woods and Hadleigh CP, but alas not this year. Nice SSBs. When fresh they are one of the most beautiful butterflies.
Regards
Kev
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:08 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
- Replies: 5125
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Re: Trevor
Trevor,
Loving the WLH photos. They always seemed so elusive to me until a couple of years ago, when I shot a sequence with my iPhone, they were so close. Still waiting for my first White Admirals of the year, so your photos have whetted my appetite.
Regards
Kev
Loving the WLH photos. They always seemed so elusive to me until a couple of years ago, when I shot a sequence with my iPhone, they were so close. Still waiting for my first White Admirals of the year, so your photos have whetted my appetite.
Regards
Kev
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:04 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: essex buzzard
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Re: essex buzzard
Essex, always nice to see a Small Tortoiseshell photo. It's a shame they are not as common place as they should be.
Regards
Kev
Regards
Kev
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: CallumMac
- Replies: 531
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Re: CallumMac
Great photos from Dartmoor Callum. Those high brown's are delightful. Just as incredible are the number of Green Hairstreak sightings still being made as we knock on July's door. Nice find.
Regards
Kev
Regards
Kev
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:00 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: David M
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Re: David M
David,
Nice photos the HBF. This is a species I have seen only once in the UK (many years ago in Exmoor NP). Timings of my holidays generally mean I can't get down to the west country at this time of the year. At least I have your photos to enjoy.
Regards
Kev
Nice photos the HBF. This is a species I have seen only once in the UK (many years ago in Exmoor NP). Timings of my holidays generally mean I can't get down to the west country at this time of the year. At least I have your photos to enjoy.
Regards
Kev
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:58 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: dilettante
- Replies: 330
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Re: dilettante
Nice images from your day dilettante. I too was out in a similar habitat today. As you say, you don't need any rarities to have a good time. Just seeing so many butterflies on the wing is what days like this are all about.
Regards
Kev
Regards
Kev
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:55 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Ernie,
A very entertaining post from you today. Your anti bite suit is a little out of my price range though. I'll see fi I can pick one up at a car boot sale
Those Purplestreak photos are a delight and capture some very interesting behaviour, something I haven't seen before.
Regards
Kev
A very entertaining post from you today. Your anti bite suit is a little out of my price range though. I'll see fi I can pick one up at a car boot sale
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Those Purplestreak photos are a delight and capture some very interesting behaviour, something I haven't seen before.
Regards
Kev
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
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Re: Pauline
Wow Pauline, that's a fantastic ab admiral you found. You don't see many photos of them.
Regards
Kev
Regards
Kev
- Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Kev Ling
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Re: Kev Ling
Dave, Dave, Chris, Wurzel: Thanks for the comments. I have struggled getting up close and personal with adult Orange Tip butterflies this year, but struck it lucky with their offspring :D Brimstone Larva Predation A contact of mine has been updating me on the progress of Brimstone larva on her Buckt...
- Sun Jun 23, 2019 10:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Kev Ling
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Re: Kev Ling
Wurzel, generally when the larva pupates, the head detaches and drops to the floor. In this case it has remained stuck to the pupal case.
Regards Kev
Regards Kev