ah brilliant thanks for your help

Can anyone help with naming areas of Chambers Farm Wood, I see references to things like Fiveways and the Minting Triangle all the time but have no idea how to find them, I've put numbers 1 and 2 on the picture below, 1 being the bench on the main track from the car park and 2 being what I've tentat...

On a walk at Rimac I saw 10 individuals all on sea buckthorn, is this a known foodplant for green hairstreak? I've found references to them using purging buckthorn but nothing about sea buckthorn

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Nice video there Jim! Our Lincolnshire Marsh Frits have been on the wing for just over a week now - hoping to go see them next week but I reckon the massive population explosion of the past two years is waning... I've just been today and seen around 100 including 2 mating pairs so there's hope yet

Big hatch of Marsh Fritillary at Chambers Farm Wood counted over 100 on a short walk around Little Stubbs Meadow, apologies for the picture its from my phone

I'm not that good at identifying Whites lol

Saw my first butterfly this year a nice Brimstone on my allotment. Not a sausage at my usual spot though, still hoping to see a Green Hairstreak there later this year (rarely visits)

What's the policy on releasing butterflies that have been reared from larvae? I had intended raising some Brown Hairstreak's next year and photographing their lifecycle (minus the egg stage), and then releasing them on a local nature reserve, but then I got to thinking that this could mess up local ...

Looks like a winner to me thanks

Can't find it any of my butterfly books so I think its a moth?



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I've eaten it all apart from the roots with no ill effects

any ideas what this chrysalis could be?



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its edible too quite a nice peppery flavour

Been looking at the London Camera Exchange sites and there are some Sigma 180mm f/3.5 for £300 ish how do they compare to the 150mm one?

Ok thanks are there any sites you recommend to start looking on? Had a bit of a look around and can't find one cheaper than £600 or so.

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Looking to buy a macro lens for my Canon EOS 400D and these 2 keep popping up. I can get the Sigma second hand for £250 ish and the Canon second hand for around £350, and the Canon also doesn't extend as it focuses. Is it worth paying the extra £100 and having a bit more working distance?

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Yeah I'm looking at ways to get there (CFW) stuck with public transport at the minute though. Apparently Whisby Nature Reserve is quite good for them as well, and there's a small nature reserve (Greetwell Hollow) thats just down the road from my house

Hi all been lurking for a while and finally decided to get stuck in. I'm Matt from Lincoln just starting out after reading The Butterfly Isles (second-hand bookshop find). Mainly interested in the photography side but I've been told there are 28 species of butterfly that can be found in Lincolnshire...