Hi Folks,
Today, Tuesday 2nd of April.
Just before some bad weather is due to set in - probably the same you are getting in Blighty.
Behind my workplace during the lunchbreak, I finally spotted some of the Spanish Festoon host plant coming through -
Aristolochia pistolochia.
Although this plant is still very small, a female has clearly found it and laid her eggs on it.
Here is the relative size of the plant:
Here is the context, in the closed end of the olive grove.
And today in the same place in the olive grove I saw my first Glanville Fritillary imago of the season, whereas there are some straggling
M. cinxia cats from the same colony still feeding on the Plantago and that have still to pupate:
Chris