Exceptional numbers of Peacock butterflies around Bath at the moment.
Also, many patches of green alkanet are being devoured by caterpillars of the day-flying Scarlet Tiger moth - promises to be a good year for them. Not quite in the same league as Peacocks maybe, but at the risk of being controversial, IMO equal to many butterflies!
Simon C
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39 Peacocks in the last two days around Radstock.
Scarlet Tiger did very well last year and has been on the increase in the Bristol/Bath area for a while. It seems to like damp, wooded/scrubby places with glades - Lord's Wood and the disused railway lines about Radstock seem to suit it, for instance.
Scarlet Tiger did very well last year and has been on the increase in the Bristol/Bath area for a while. It seems to like damp, wooded/scrubby places with glades - Lord's Wood and the disused railway lines about Radstock seem to suit it, for instance.
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I found Green Hairstreaks at Cleaves Wood last year, when I was trying to rediscover the Duke of Burgundy which bred there not that long ago. It usually seems to be the way with the Green Hairstreak - I find it when I am looking for something else, but when I look for it deliberately it is nowhere to be seen...
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One good place to see Common Blue in Northern Ireland is a "white spots country park" formally "Lead Mines" at Calndyboy between Newtownards and Bangor Co Down. I went there near every year and its a good area of unspoiled area. It also has loads of six spot burnet as well. Also a large number of Red Admrial I have seen there too.