Many thanks all for the kind comments, they really add the icing on the cake to great days out
Pauline, I am so sorry I am driving you to despair, its totally unintentional. I am not singling you out, I had Wurzel groaning a bit a few weeks back
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I must admit, I went looking for the Small Coppers but the Purple Hairstreak just happened when I wasn't expecting it
Wednesday 31st July
Yesterday (Tuesday) the Peacock Pupae had started to change colour, in fact one had emerged early in the afternoon.....
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- Peacock Pupae, dark form
![Solihull 30.07.2013 219resize.JPG (303.15 KiB) Viewed 1165 times Peacock pupa, green form.](./files/thumb_10101_12bf45b5e31a03eefd3cf50c46ee9b1e)
- Peacock pupa, green form.
A little later I released the adult into the garden where it posed briefly on my path before taking off over the neighbours garden.
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- Peacock - Coverdale 30.07.2013
After the past few days of rain showers, some of them heavy and thundery, with warm sunny spells in between, today was miserable and grey with constant rain………
……..and guess when most of the rest of my Peacocks decided to emerge.
I had been keeping the cage outside when the weather was reasonable but bringing it in to the garage overnight as the pupae were more exposed on the netting than they would be in the wild where I would presume they would be tucked away in sheltered locations.
I got up this morning to find nine recently emerged adults hanging down drying their wings.
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- Recently emerged Peacocks.
Not wanting to disturb them I left them and went out a couple of times on some errands thinking I would release them into the garden when the rain stopped. Well, it rained all day and it was gone 6.00pm before it finally stopped and the clouds turned a lighter shade of grey and I had a chance to release them.
I put the cage out in the garden and just unzipped the side for them to find their way out and fly off.
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- Just before release...
There are just four pupae left to emerge, all look healthy enough so maybe tomorrow.
Bye for now
Neil.