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Home to see England beat France and now the moth traps on............. oh joy.
Hugh
Yes I saw my first butterfly of the year today (Sunday), a Comma, at the BC reserve at Park Corner Heath. It's good to be back!David M wrote:Looks like just about everyone's seen Commas today!
I suspect it was a day-flying moth, the Orange Underwing Archiearis parthenias, often mistaken for a butterfly at this time of year.The first sighting of the day was not at home and was actually too brief and short to get a positive id. A butterfly flitted across the front of my car as I pulled away from the inlaws down in Woodlands near Ashhurst in the New Forest. It was the wrong colour to be a Brimstone, too small to be Peacock or Red Admiral and the flight was all wrong to be a Comma or Small Tortoiseshell. If it were a month or so later I would say most likely a Speckled Wood but surely it is too early. Of course I will never know for sure but has anyone else seen Speckled Wood this early
Yes strange indeed, particularly Mark Colvin's lack of sightings in Oaken Wood. I have been seeing good numbers at all of my local sites every time the temperature exceeded 15 degrees. On 15th March I visited Hutchinson's Bank, Addington, Surrey, an area of chalk grassland managed by the London Wildlife Trust. With the temperature estimated at 18 degrees I saw 14 Brimstones (all male), 14 Commas, 12 Small Tortoiseshells and 2 Peacocks between 1pm and 3.30pm. Also my first Bee-fly of the year. Still no Red Admirals though.............David M wrote:Surprised there wasn't a glut of butterfly activity today. The temperature reached 19C...............