Just found this site today & i'm glad I have ! I live in West Sussex & am married with 3 kids, always been into butterflies & wildlife, my eldest 2 are very interested in wildlife also (youngest is only a week old) & I have shown them recently how to rear caterpillars as I used to as...

Hi Guy, it was laying on nettles (I take it you mean eggs??) I always leave a few in the garden in the hope I'll get something & this year I did
I found some tortishells earlier so I bought a few back to rear & release.

Thanks Dave, it was really good to see, I was pleased to catch it on camera. The kids were interested to see it as well, last year my daughter took some caterpillers into school to show as well which was nice. I have a couple of Comma's that I hope to capture the same results of, I have this from eg...

In West Sussex, saw a few White Admirals on Monday when out & about which pleased me as it's been a while since i've seen any, also seen a couple of Red Admirals in the garden, Peacocks & was lucky enough to see a Comma lay a couple of eggs earlier this month.

A few pictures I took from some Peacocks I bred in captivity, I used to do this as a child & started up again to show the kids who really enjoy it as well. I was even lucky enough to catch caterpiller to pupa, I just missed pupa to butterfly unfortunatly. I hope you enjoy the pictures, I also wi...