Thanks for your response Vince. They are all in very high spots, the ceilings are double height so difficult to get to them, but I’m willing to try. They do tend to stay there all winter, though this year there are more than usual and as I said in my previous post, one did wake up. We have lots of o...

I live in a 16th century timber framed building with lots of beams and every year we have small tortoiseshell butterflies hibernating against them, particularly in the bathroom and one of the upstairs passages. There were 7 until today when one decided to fly and went back outside. I worry about the...

I’ve just found this forum and so pleased I have. I love butterflies and moths and photographing them is a new hobby for me. Here are 2 photographs taken on our smallholding in Warwickshire