Hi Simon,

Here's a quote from my book by Jeremy Thomas:

"By and large, the Meadow Brown is a sedentary insect, which strays from its breeding sites only when these are disturbed or are of poor quality."

Hope that helps.

DM

Hi, Apart from the Butterfly Consevation folk, does anyone know of any other organisation or individual who requires reports on certain butterfly sightings? I found with some other insects there are a multitude of people who would like to hear of our sightings, take seven spot ladybirds and stag bee...

I thought this was a common blue, but looking at the other posts I'm not so sure! Please can someone confirm?

DM

Hi, I put this question to a moth forum several days ago and they still haven't answered me despite some 11 viewings! So I wondered if any of you chaps had the answer? A colleague asked me about clothes moths. I explained that out of the some 2700 moths in the UK, only 5 or 5 species are actually gu...

Hi Martin, I've been looking at your picture for a couple weeks now. I've read the whole post and I understand why people grapple with up turned lens etc (just like I am on the Backgarden Moths Forum to get my first light!) but I sooo want to say: I want to take pictures like THIS! I don't have the ...

Although on second viewing I think mine is a male mincki because of the wide pale patches on the lower wings and the black dot. The subalbida has smaller pale patches and a bigger dot.

What do you think?

DM

Thanks Pete,

I'll have to see if I can get a better picture and then maybe I'll be able to work out which one s/he is!

DM

Hi,

This one was fluttering about my garden today. Is it common to see them like this or is it a known aberation?

DM

Yippee - loads of yellow ragwort in and around my garden - will get looking tomorrow! I've never seen the moth, let alone it's caterpillars.

DM

Hi Pete,

that link leads to an error page!

DM

Hi! Well how strange is this????? Just this week I have made contact with the county moth reporter for Sussex and I posed him a question about a white letter hairstreak I saw a few years ago - yes he does butterflies too! I haven't read the report Pete mentions but I will. Just wanted to say though ...

Hi! If it's any help at all!, when I get home after 5pm when most butterflies have left, I often find Meadow Browns still feeding on the flowers in the shade. I don't know anything about temperatures being too hot for butterflies but in my experience, Meadow Browns do settle on flowers in the shade ...

Thanks Wayne - not obvious is it!

Sorry Pete!

DM

Hi Oy! So you see - it's a friendly bunch of folk here! I was going to ask about the caterpillars but you already answered. I'm new to mothing and this is a butterfly site but you will find Pete and the guys most helpful on all subjects around the butterfly arena. Welcome! Dormouse Ps: So where am I...

Well as a gardener I think there are plenty of opportunities to capture wildlife on film. Sweep the leaves, clear the pond, tidy the shed, turn the compost. All these activities bring up allsorts - bugs, beetles, butterflies, moths, birds, bees etc and keep you warm whilst you're looking! Put out fa...

In connection with this, is there a link from the forum back to the site? I haven't found it yet if there is!

I think this would be very useful as I've been to the forum several times and never found the main site until I deleted all the stuff in the url after the main site's address.

Dormouse

Thank you (although I'd been far happier if it had been a new one for me!)

DM

Yep - sunny West Sussex today!

Thank you.

DM

Could this be a meadow brown with it's spot hidden or is it something completely different?



Dormouse

Hi. I know this is a bad picture but please can someone confirm if they think it's a Holly Blue?

Dormouse