Thank you Mike

Hallo folks, I came across the forum whilst looking for info. I posted here: http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7127 Anyways I know next to nothing about butterflies, but just in the last 36 hours I have been paying a bit more attention, and have lots of questions. I shall ...

[quote="JohnR"]You can extend the flowering time of the buddleias by deadheading them, cut the lead dead flower head and you will see two side shoot buds below, if they are past that stage, then just below that point and you may get small secondary flowers. /quote] Done.. and thanks for th...

[quote="JohnR"]You can extend the flowering time of the buddleias by deadheading them, cut the lead dead flower head and you will see two side shoot buds below, if they are past that stage, then just below that point and you may get small secondary flowers. /quote] Done.. and thanks for th...

Thank you, John. As you may have guessed, I am new to this lepidoptery lark..... So I will start a new thread....

Thanks John... I have three enormous Buddleia and next-door has one they are unlikely to cut back this year. Next-door also has the biggest elder I have ever seen, taller than the house, so birds who like that sort of thing won't starve... I'll dead-head the buddleia which is still in full bloom. I ...

Hi I have just joined the forum and am certainly no lepdopterist, I can probably identify no more than five species, but I was just having a look around and I found your story. I have never seen a Purple Emporer, and I don't know if they are rare in Switzerland, but I just wanted to say that your st...

ooh, just spotted a new one, a sort of buttermilk coloured, with a spot on his wings.........

Which, by using the 'British Butterflies' id chart, I guess is a female Brimstone? (I hope I have left enough brambles for it!)

Hi folks, I am in the process of tidying an overgrown garden. I have noticed that this year there are lots of butterflies, I am not at all expert, but certainly whites, Tortoishells, Peacocks, usually around the big buddleia bushes. Plus another smaller brown chappie, (gatekeeper?) who hang about th...