Hi Bill
you may be right, but our local holidays don't start untill the end of July, also I do think everything is ahead this season anyway, fingers crossed for the end of July, may look for ph as well !

Thanks guys you have given me some sites worth checking out, as I said we will be travelling down from Hereford down to south wales at the end of July, so the woods at Trelleck look to be the nearest on route, hope the weather holds and wer get chance to search for the white admiral, We did find you...

Hi Guys down in south wales at the end of July, can anyone name a site for the white Admiral?, I know it's common in the forest of Dean, but it's vast, did try to find betty daws wood in Gloucester a couple of years ago, but the directions I had were useless, ended up in Newent, found Queens wood, b...

cheer Nick, must get ut the OS and have a closer look !

good selection of species Nick, must get up to Gait Barrow, got some time off work in July, is lord lots bog near?

Nope Denise
it's a burnet moth cocoon, drinker moth is a lot lot bigger, keep looking, round here the moths are on the wing in July

Brian

Thanks for the id, the link shows the same moth at a location not 10 miles form here!, I'll note the name for the photo, thanks again

Hoping to take a holiday with the wife to south wales in July, and want to spend a couple of days at Ross on Wye, can I see the white admiral in this location? any advice from members will be useful, the forest of dean is too big to explore, so some of the smaller woods may be easier to visit

yes it's a drinker moth, lot around at the moment, it's a grass feeder and it spins a yellow cocoon among the grass stems

snapped a picture of this in the garden, thought at first was a micro but looking at the picture, I'm not sure? caddis fly?
it was about 5mm long , so was quite small

any suggestions from members?

Yes drinker moth, reared them many years ago

After reading all the comments for and against another competition section, I go with the no's, perhaps just a comment with the entry, although some image manipulation is obvious, a bit of digital gardening to any photo to enhance it should be allowed, we do have a high standard from a few members a...

Hi Rosy Lantana is a good nector plant, I grow it every year and use it in the greenhouse, in warm summers it will grow outside but the leaves "blue up* with the cold, they need frost protection for the winter, so a cold greenhouse is fine, and it's a good idea to take cuttings every year and t...

Hi Dave Now got the same Canon dslr as you, up till christmas I was using the 350d, I tend to use a monopod when I can otherwise it's hand held, it's not often you get chance to set up a tripod. On the subject of focusing ,change the red led metering aid to one led, when this flashes you will have f...

Looks like I opened a can of worms with my comments on Simon c's photo, some good comments from members, and I think a separate section would be best, keep the competition entries the same, so our film users can still take part, I myself have some good ideas for making the perfect photo, imagine not...

Hi Simon
nice shot, I suspect a bit of work in photshop to get the multiple images, quite difficult
freezing wing motion, high speed flash essential, Stephen Dalton did a lot of this type of work many years ago

Thought I was going to miss this months competition, then I spotted this Brian

Thanks guys, you seem to be in agreement, the moth is a copper underwing A. pyramidea, the larvae was a turquiose blue but didn;t notice a lighter coloured stripe and the food plant was sallow
so thanks again
Brian

yes I know we are a butterfly group, but with our talents I'm sure a member may help me identify this moth, we get the common noctuids in our area, so cabbage moths, dot moths, daggers and angle shades are easy to identify, this I found it in my greenhouse, I was collecting foodplant (SALLOW) for so...

Hi Charles, I had the same problem with image sizes when using photo buckets. Athough I will continue to use this free photo hosting site I have found if I resize my image before uploading to photobuckets It sorts out the problem, the size I use 900 x 600, give it a try