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- Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:17 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Padfield
- Replies: 4406
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Re: Padfield
Hope you enjoy Spain! Things may be a bit different after the massive forest fires on the hills last summer, and I hope the butterflies haven't been too seriously impacted.
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Goldie M
- Replies: 4395
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Re: Goldie M
The bumblebees work the foxglove flowers from the bottom to the top, then fly down to start at the bottom of the next plant.
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:10 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: March 2023
- Replies: 53
- Views: 6871
Re: March 2023
They are back! Small Tortoiseshell today nectaring on winter-flowering heather for prolonged periods, interrupted by short flights and periods of basking. P1020385.jpg A male and a female Brimstone through the garden as well. Neither has quite got the hang yet of being a Brimstone in springtime. We ...
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:45 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Tenerife - 7th to 12th March 2023
- Replies: 56
- Views: 4157
Re: Tenerife - 7th to 12th March 2023
I'm enjoying these photos!
Beehives seem to be quite the entomological hazard in Spain. These ones were in my most reliable area for Spanish Festoon.
Beehives seem to be quite the entomological hazard in Spain. These ones were in my most reliable area for Spanish Festoon.
- Fri Mar 03, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: New Erebia species
- Replies: 6
- Views: 768
- Fri Mar 03, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: David M
- Replies: 2008
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Re: David M
If I remember right, Lavernock is a good spot for migrating birds, so may be so for migrant butterflies as well. A shame there seems to be no horseshoe vetch on site, as it would make an ideal bridgehead for colonising blues.
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 3:32 pm
- Forum: Small Copper
- Topic: Small Copper - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1878
Re: Small Copper - Favourite Photo of 2022
Not the best photo, but I do enjoy it. Cajarc (Lot, France), 19 September 2022.
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 10:00 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Matsukaze
- Replies: 224
- Views: 445832
Re: Matsukaze
Greylake RSPB today - no butterflies but plenty of birdlife:
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:07 pm
- Forum: White-letter Hairstreak
- Topic: White-letter Hairstreak - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1096
Re: White-letter Hairstreak - Favourite Photo of 2022
The only example I saw this year - Asham Wood, Somerset, 31 July 2022.
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Wall
- Topic: Wall - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 9
- Views: 804
Re: Wall - Favourite Photo of 2022
A garden visitor - 18 August 2022.
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:40 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Goldie M
- Replies: 4395
- Views: 3035413
Re: Goldie M
Hi Goldie, the shrub is I think Viburnum tinus, and yes, some early butterflies will nectar on it.
The birds here refuse to feed unless provided with sunflower hearts. Looks like yours are a bit more flexible!
The birds here refuse to feed unless provided with sunflower hearts. Looks like yours are a bit more flexible!
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Western France, September 2022
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1342
Re: Western France, September 2022
...On the edge of town one evening, I noticed nibbling on the leaves of some kind of Alcea (?), and wondered... I've occasionally found them on waste ground where mallow has been growing, Chris. Seems this species can make a home almost anywhere if the lhp is around. Shame they can't get over the C...
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:03 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Western France, September 2022
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1342
Re: Western France, September 2022
Natural Reserve Moëze-Oléron, Charente-Maritime Hi Chris, I was fortunate in seeing several cardinals nectering on a plant in front of the Reserve's reception at the Ferme de Plaisance as shown 15-09 2011, it seems they were a chance meeting. I frequently return to Moëze in the hopes of seeing them...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:06 pm
- Forum: Small Blue
- Topic: Small Blue - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1089
Re: Small Blue - Favourite Photo of 2022
I hardly saw this species at home in 2022, but was blessed with considerable numbers of these tough little butterflies in southern France.
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:55 pm
- Forum: Small Heath
- Topic: Small Heath - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2037
Re: Small Heath - Favourite Photo of 2022
The first time I have ever managed to take photos of Small Heath I am happy with - three photos of the same insect (with two different cameras). Marcilhac-sur-Célé, Lot, France, 18 September 2022.
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:47 pm
- Forum: Small Tortoiseshell
- Topic: Small Tortoiseshell - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 14
- Views: 914
Re: Small Tortoiseshell - Favourite Photo of 2022
My first garden butterfly of 2022, on 17 January. Nectaring on flowering hebe.
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
- Topic: Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1045
Re: Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Favourite Photo of 2022
Priddy Mineries, Somerset - probably the best site in the county for this butterfly. 11 June 2022.
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:42 pm
- Forum: Small Copper
- Topic: Small Copper - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1878
Re: Small Copper - Favourite Photo of 2022
In the garden on 28 July. Not quite what I was hoping to attract to the kidney vetch, but I'm not complaining!
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:15 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Western France, September 2022
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1342
Re: Western France, September 2022
Ile de Ré (2) - Mallow Skipper On the edge of town one evening, I noticed nibbling on the leaves of some kind of Alcea (?), and wondered... P1010507.jpg Sure enough there was a little tent... P1010508.jpg ...and inside, the caterpillar. P1010500.jpg Once I had found one, it was not too hard to find...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:00 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Western France, September 2022
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1342
Re: Western France, September 2022
Ile de Ré (1) - Cardinal This is the one special butterfly on the Ile de Ré, off the Charente-Maritime coast, and as luck would have it, we had timed our visit for its flight period. The butterfly flies in the pine woods that back on to the island's sandy beaches (it's also meant to occur in simila...