Happy New Year!

[Neil Hulme]

Happy New Year!

Wishing you all an exciting and fruitful 2015 butterfly season.

BWs, Neil

[Padfield]

A happy new year to you, Neil, and to all UK Butterfliers. If the last two years are anything to go by we are in for a few surprises in 2015 so my new year wish for all of you is that you find yourself in the right place at the right time (with your camera)!

Guy

[MikeOxon]

Happy New Year!

Mike

[Pete Eeles]

And a Happy New Year from me too! I have 71 things I want to see in 2015 (the large number is due to subspecies, but mostly immature stages), and have mapped out my year already Right now I should, apparently, be looking for Essex Skipper eggs ... but will probably wait to see a female lay later in the year

Cheers,

- Pete

[Wurzel]

A Happy New Year to all UK Butterfliers from me as well, hopefully it will be a cracker

Have a goodun (2015 that is !)

Wurzel

[Vince Massimo]

And a very Happy New Year to all from me also
I have had a relatively quiet 2014, spending a lot of time surveying for the Sussex Butterfly Atlas, but that project enters a new phase tomorrow, so I can now start planning some trips for the coming year. Looking forward to seeing all those reports and photos coming in from members and wondering what the story of 2015 will be.

Seasonal photo of winter grazing on a Nature Reserve

Vince

[Jack Harrison]

Big question for the New Year. Have Scarce Tortoiseshells hibernated in sufficient numbers to colonise?

Assuming they have, then I make a New Year's resolution: The Small Tortoiseshell henceforth to be called the Common Tortoiseshell

Jack

[Pete Eeles]

Big question for the New Year. Have Scarce Tortoiseshells hibernated in sufficient numbers to colonise?

Assuming they have, then I make a New Year's resolution: The Small Tortoiseshell henceforth to be called the Common Tortoiseshell

Jack

Until it becomes so common, that the Scarce Tortoiseshell outnumbers the Common Tortoiseshell Most "relative" adjectives such as Small, Large, Common, Scarce are meaningless in a new context (the Long-tailed Blue has some of the shortest tails of butterflies found in Thailand, where it is known as the Pea Blue) so I think we need to be more creative I much prefer "Yellow-legged" for xanthomelas.

Cheers,

- Pete

[David M]

Happy New Year to one and all.

Given that my first butterfly of 2014 was on 24th February, one hopes we haven't long to wait...

[Neil Freeman]

Despite the ominous weather forecasts last week we only saw a thin dusting of snow around here but there have been some cold and frosty mornings which have made the garden look quite attractive.

A frosty morning in the back garden 29.12.2014

Here's to everyone seeing what they want to see in 2015,

Cheers,

Neil.

[Susie]

Happy butterflying!