Hello, How good are you at identifying the female blues? http://www.glaucus.org.uk/FemaleBlues0035sm.jpg Adur Butterfly & Large Moth List http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Butterfly-list2010.html Cheers Andy Horton glaucus@hotmail.com Adur Valley Nature Notes http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2010.html Adur...

Hello, The Brown Hairstreak has been seen and photographed by me on the Buckingham Cutting south, amongst the Bramblkes, north Shoreham. I have bene told that this butterfly is so secretive that it may be present and not seen by spotters. There was no Blackthorn actually known in the area where this...

Has anyone noticed a reduction in Whites this year? My cabbages are still intact :!: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7967789/Small-tortoiseshells-back-but-cabbage-whites-are-most-common-butterfly.html I've been out of the country, so I can't comment! Guy Hello, Over the last ten years in...

Hello, 3 September 2010 There were still frequent butterflies around on the outskirts of Shoreham, notable a dozen Chalkhill Blues and my first Clouded Yellow of the year on the Mill Hill Cutting (SW), north Shoreham. Adur Butterfly & Large Moth List http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Butterfly-list2010....

Hello, 29 August 2010 Swallows and House Martins swooped over Mill Hill prior to migration south. Butterflies were still in flight and the count of Adonis Blues on the 1.2 acre transect on the lower slopes of Mill Hill was 122. Other species seen during the morning were frequent Holly Blues and Spec...

CLOUDED YELLOW in Wells Woods, north Norfolk yesterday. It was in the meadow immediately south of the Dell- and not very active, in poor weather, with not many butterflies around. It even permitted me to break off the leaf on which it was perched, to allow a better photo. I cannot recall a butterfl...

Beg to differ :D I have Goldenrod in two gardens I tend, both on chalk, and it is a nightmare if you let them seed. Although its by no means a favourite, I have seen one or two whites feeding on it. Regards Gruditch I am not disagreeing. In the wild, Brambles and a quite a few other shrubs are more...

Beg to differ :D I have Goldenrod in two gardens I tend, both on chalk, and it is a nightmare if you let them seed. Although its by no means a favourite, I have seen one or two whites feeding on it. Regards Gruditch I am not disagreeing. In the wild, Brambles and a quite a few other shrubs are more...

Hello, Goldenrod not too invasive on chalk. It does not attract butterflies, and not many hoverflies although it has been noted attracting Volucella zonaria, which is an impressive hoverfly. Torrential rain (Sussex) on a short visit to the Library and I got soaked through in a few minutes. http://ww...

Hello, 24 August 2010 Buffeted about in a Force 6 Strong Breeze gusting to Gale Force 8, the conditions were far from ideal for butterflies after the recent rain. Adonis Blues (80) and Meadow Browns (est 75) were very frequently seen on Mill Hill, (numbers on the 1.2 acre transect in 25 minutes), bu...

Hello, 18 August 2010 Out on a hedgerow foraging trip I spotted my first confirmed Brown Hairstreak on the southern bank of the Buckingham Cutting, north Shoreham, which has made me more confident about my two previous sightings on Mill Hill. It was a male in an area where Blackthorn bushes were not...

Hello, 15 August 2010 Despite the cloudy autumnal weather conditions, the blue butterflies were out and about with over fifty Holly Blues on the outskirts of Shoreham (Sussex) and over a hundred each of Chalkhill Blues , Adonis Blues and Common Blues on Mill Hill (north of Shoreham). About 15 Holly ...

Hello, 9 August 2010 Sometimes a cloudy overcast day is good for photographing butterflies as they may remain still for just that fraction longer. On the lower slopes of Mill Hill, 68 male Chalkhill Blues and 53 male Adonis Blues recorded in the 1.2 acre transect in 25 minutes. There were twelve Wal...

Hello, 2 August 2010 What a diference a day makes: the half acre top meadow (north of the upper car park) on Mill Hill was still alive with butterflies, but the half acre now hosted only about a 120 Common Blues, but they may have dispersed as surrounding meadow areas were now more densely populated...

Hello, 1 August 2010 Another cloudy day and not a day for butterflies to be out, and at first there were very few to be seen and many hoverflies were harassing the ones that had tried to settle in the cool conditions. Two large Hornet Robber Flies, Asilus crabroniformis, my first of the year settled...

Hello, 1 August 2010 Even when the sun found a gap in the clouds not many more than a hundred Chalkhill Blues were disturbed on the one acre transect on the lower slopes of Mill Hill. As there was not even spread over the steeper slopes this extrapolated to mere 350 on Mill Hill. This is a very low ...

I may have to go to north Dorset for this one. Fontmell down here i come. Don't bother with Fontmell Zonda. :( You may see one or two, but the days when the down was teaming with thousands of chalkies (I remember it well) have long gone, ever since DWT introduced the '3mm' grazing regime...! I went...

Hello, 30 July 2010 On a cloudy day the first two brown female Chalkhill Blue Butterflies were spotted crawling amongst the leaves of Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis comosa, on the south-eastern bank of the Mill Hill Cutting where 25 males flew in this small garden-sized patch, and latterly another two...

Hello, 30 July 2010 On a cloudy day the first two brown female Chalkhill Blue Butterflies were spotted crawling amongst the leaves of Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis comosa, on the south-eastern bank of the Mill Hill Cutting where 25 males flew in this small garden-sized patch, and latterly another two...

Hello, 24 July 2010 At least two Holly Blues and a few Small Whites, not seen the previous day, were seen around the Buddleia on the River Adur Riverbank by the houseboats where the most frequent butterfly were Red Admirals with a few Gatekeepers and Large Whites fluttered around in the humid sunshi...