Nice photos Jerry! love the small heath and Brimstone, cool
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. I gotta look for those soon. Neil, like the PE caterpillar.
I was back out at the river today when I saw the Orange-Tips the other day
Video I made of orange-tip videos I got today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcQUBJEAk_U the crackling noises you hear in video are just the wind as it was windy where I was.
The video, the start the river, is a little blurry as I was not sure about how to focus with camera properly. The river looks very green in the video, its full of plants, but it is wet, full of water though.
A male orange tip seemed to land on my finger when the clouds covered the sun, stayed for a while, opened its wings when sun came out, and a few mins later, it flew away. It seemed as soon as the sun went behind clouds, the butterflies went into sleep mode or something.
Here is the river (one side of river, its the green bit that curves in shot, its getting very grown with this one type of plant. Need a pic to tell what the plant is)
Here is one male on cuckooflower, it rested there when clouds came for a short while:
Here is the male that landed on my finger when it became cloudy:
I also did what Jack said, I found one egg of OT and brought it home to rear:
White Egg on cuckooflower when I found it:
Egg when I brought it home later:
Here is the box I used to put egg in. I am using an old Ben Sherman deodorant box I had. I put the cuckooflower in a lunch bag with soil and water in bag, I tied up the bag so nothing can fall into it and put it like this. I will keep caterpillar i here until its bigger and the cuckooflowers I have in pots, start growing better as they are a little wilting at moment, as I just planted them today.
Good day today anyway. One question if anyone knows or has seen this behaviour before, I am just wondering why this happened. The river here is in two halves. It is split by a grassy drier part that has a gate into next field beside it. In the next field is a field of kale. On one side of the river, the side closer to the kale field are nothing but GV Whites. Nearby on the other side of the grassy bit, where the kale field ends and there is a forest behind the river, nothing but Orange-Tips. It seems here the two species never are seen in the same areas with eachother, only have their own patches, rarely do I see one or two of one species go into another species area. There are loads of cuckooflowers on both sides of the river.