North Ayrshire, Scotland Peacock: very good numbers in last 2-3 weeks since 1st sighting on mar 30 Green Hairstreak: very good numbers with 60+ seen at a site on friday and 45+ seen at another site yesterday Small Tortoiseshell: decent numbers in last 2-3 weeks since 1st sighting on mar 30 Orange Ti...

The butterflies which I saw last week were definately large fritillaries and although I haven't seen a Queen of Spain Fritillary since I visited France in 2014 I do recall they were a little smaller in size compared to a Dark Green Fritillary so I am pretty certain that DGFs are what I saw.

Hi All Thanks very much for all your expert opinions, I am no expert but they looked like Dark Green Fritillaries to me but I wasn't able to get really close to them due to the blustery wind, to be honest I never even considered that they could have been another closely related species but now I sup...

I had some business in Eastbourne last weekend so when I had a little spare time last Saturday (3rd October) I decided to visit a few of the best butterfly sites in the area just to see which species were still flying this late in the season, I saw 12 different species (Clouded Yellow, Large White, ...

I would suggest the Seven-Sons Flower (Heptacodium Miconioides) which can either be grown as a small tree (Top Image) or large shrub (Bottom Image) depending on pruning, it can grow to about 15-20 feet high and 10 feet wide and its white flowers are very attractive to a wide range of butterflies, be...

I have seen butterflies on various different sedums but sedum spectabile are definately the most attractive to butterflies as well as bees, all sedum spectabile cultivars are very good butterfly plants but from my experience both white ones (iceberg and stardust) and the pale pink one (brilliant) se...

Thanks everyone for all your replies so far.

I will be travelling over to Andalucia in mid January for two weeks, I will be viewing several properties along the Costa Almeria during the first few days with the intention of buying a holiday home where I will be living 3-4 months each winter, then I am using the remainder of my holiday to search...

I have seen several late butterflies in Ayrshire during the past week. Tuesday 04/11/14 1 Red Admiral and 1 Small Tortoiseshell in my garden in Rankinston, Ayrshire both were on Red Valerian and Mauve Valerian. Wednesday 05/11/14 3 Red Admirals and 1 Small Tortoiseshell in various places in Ayr, one...

Hi Scott I have found the following plants to be the top butterfly nectar sources in my garden. Butterfly Bush - Buddleja Davidii Autumn Beauty (Late Flowering), Buddleja Davidii Pink Delight, Buddleja Davidii White Profusion Ice Plant - Sedum Spectabile Brilliant, Sedum Spectabile Carmen Knapweed -...

I have recently bought 3 Sedum Carl plants so can anyone tell me exactly what species they are and whether they are likely to be as attractive to butterflies and bumble bees as Sedum Spectabile Brilliant for example, I would guess they may well be either a variety of Sedum Spectabile, Sedum Telephiu...

Hi Chris, I must say that I have really enjoyed keeping up to date with this excellent thread over recent months especially all of your lovely pics. I have seen several pics of various butterflies and moths on valerian so I was just wondering whether it is pink flower red valerian (centranthus ruber...

Thanks very much mark, I have just been searching Syringa shrubs on the internet and I see that there are now literally hundreds or even thousands of different species / cultivars available, I may well plant one of these in my own garden later this year in any case.

Can anyone ID this shrub which proved to be a butterfly magnet yesterday please, it measures approx 7ft by 7ft in size and it was covered in butterflies (25-40 butterflies of 7 different species with about 2/3 of these being Green-veined Whites for the entire hour or so I was there), I have several ...

Thanks very much all, it appears that Psodos Quadrifaria is a relatively common and numerous species in the Alps but I will be searching for them in the Massif Central first.

Hi everyone, i am a new forum member and this is my first post. I am going to be heading over to France for about ten days in early July primarily to search for butterflies and moths, I will be spending my first few days at Le Mont-Dore in the Massif Central and then I may visit the Alps or even the...