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- Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of Var, Southern France
- Replies: 449
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Re: Butterflies of Var, Southern France
Rather smaller rocks, from back at the end of March 2024. The workers from the local commune showed up shortly after this photo and asked if we were all right - evidently the rocks had come down the night before. There were green hairstreaks and black-eyed blues further up the track.
- Sat Jul 06, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Pieris mannii?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 159
Pieris mannii?
Is this Pieris mannii? Photographed in a park in central Trier (western Germany) last week.
- Fri Jul 05, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Padfield
- Replies: 4406
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Re: Padfield
Most of the ones I have seen have been fourreaux, though I think I have seen one in Spain and have once come across the case on the Somerset Levels. Perhaps like many species it likes sunny weather and dislikes the damp.
Re: June 2024
Male Brimstone through the garden just now. He may have a chance of meeting his own offspring. This is the one species to be having a really good year here in what's generally been a very poor spring for butterflies.
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Larva on Yellow Rattle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 259
Re: Larva on Yellow Rattle
Mouse Moth would be a good candidate.
- Tue May 21, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Conservation
- Topic: Rescuing Purple Hairstreak eggs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2215
Re: Rescuing Purple Hairstreak eggs
I collected a bunch of fallen oak twigs earlier in the month, hoping to pick up some Purple Hairstreak larvae. Instead I got this formidable beast - Twin-spotted Quaker moth, Anorthoa munda.
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From Huelva province, Spain, late last month. Here's an Orange-tip egg on Tower Mustard Arabis glabra, a common enough plant around the Mediterranean but a rarity in Britain. It is, however, used here as a foodplant as well.
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Matsukaze
- Replies: 224
- Views: 445832
Re: Matsukaze
Pollination in action, two years ago in Dordogne. Note the orchid pollinia on the left-hand butterfly's proboscis (the butterflies are, I think, parthenoides)
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: 2024 - Large Tortoiseshell
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4072
Re: 2024 - Large Tortoiseshell
Dizzy Skippers, imo.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Earlier and earlier
- Replies: 5
- Views: 436
Re: Earlier and earlier
All winters and springs are different, and each species reacts in a different way. This year the orange-tips are out early but the sallow blossom is running late.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Neil Hulme
- Replies: 4493
- Views: 560901
Re: Neil Hulme
Whilst we're talking snakes, does anyone know if putting corrugated metal down for reptile surveys can be used to create bare ground for the establishment of butterfly foodplants?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Matsukaze
- Replies: 224
- Views: 445832
Re: Matsukaze
More Orange-tips...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Padfield
- Replies: 4406
- Views: 1143523
Re: Padfield
I like the way Minnie's alert ear directs us to the butterfly.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Matsukaze
- Replies: 224
- Views: 445832
Re: Matsukaze
The Orange-tips have started to emerge.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: David M
- Replies: 2008
- Views: 6244547
Re: David M
Same here in Somerset - only one vanessid to date (unidentifiable but flight pattern suggested Small Tort). A few Brimstones about. Opportunities for butterflies are few and far between amid the endless rain.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: March 2024
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3749
Re: March 2024
Male Brimstone in central Exeter on Monday.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Matsukaze
- Replies: 224
- Views: 445832
Re: Matsukaze
I have seen butterflies. Admittedly, I had to go to the south coast of France for them...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: David M
- Replies: 2008
- Views: 6244547
Re: David M
I wouldn't dare walk in the woods round here. Far too slippery.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Padfield
- Replies: 4406
- Views: 1143523
Re: Padfield
Thanks Pete and Roger! If we’re both still around, Roger, I look forward to losing the bet! When I was 21, in the winter of ‘85-6, I watched Halley’s comet creep through the constellations. When it faded from sight in the spring, I said, ‘See you again!’ That requires me to live to 97… Guy Belated ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
- Topic: Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Favourite Photo of 2023
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1278
Re: Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Favourite Photo of 2023
Thanks Wurzel. Hopefully the Glanvilles will still be there in 2024 - in truth I'm surprised they have lasted that long, as their populations seem to struggle to survive on chalk downland. I've seen Marsh Fritillaries a couple of times at Priddy, and they certainly used to be resident there 25 years...