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Yep, you're right Nick.
Barbados is small, flat and geographically-isolated. I certainly wouldn't recommend it as a destination solely for butterfly-spotting. Chuck in a bit of cricket, some scuba-diving, a modicum of lazing on the beach and an awful lot of drinking rum and it works out just great though
What little information there is on Bajan lepidoptera mainly focuses on the larger showy species like Orions, Mimics, Monarchs and various Swallowtails - and most of the images if you google are the ones on their stamps. However, what I saw were mainly the smaller species - skippers, blues and hairstreaks - the larger species were flying through so quickly that they weren't easy to photograph.
A final batch...
Barbados is small, flat and geographically-isolated. I certainly wouldn't recommend it as a destination solely for butterfly-spotting. Chuck in a bit of cricket, some scuba-diving, a modicum of lazing on the beach and an awful lot of drinking rum and it works out just great though
What little information there is on Bajan lepidoptera mainly focuses on the larger showy species like Orions, Mimics, Monarchs and various Swallowtails - and most of the images if you google are the ones on their stamps. However, what I saw were mainly the smaller species - skippers, blues and hairstreaks - the larger species were flying through so quickly that they weren't easy to photograph.
A final batch...
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Anyone for spiders?
Generally I'm OK with the eight-legged freaks providing they
a) are not bigger than a hand span
b) are not of the jumping and/or spitting variety
c) do not feature the word widow in their common name
which unfortunately rules out about 95% of the species in Florida
Generally I'm OK with the eight-legged freaks providing they
a) are not bigger than a hand span
b) are not of the jumping and/or spitting variety
c) do not feature the word widow in their common name
which unfortunately rules out about 95% of the species in Florida
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A lovely day in Notts. yesterday - which granted me the chance to see the fourth species in my garden so far this year...
February 9th - Small Tortoiseshell
March 6th - Brimstone, Red Admiral
March 22nd - Comma
February 9th - Small Tortoiseshell
March 6th - Brimstone, Red Admiral
March 22nd - Comma
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Lots of quantity but no real variety in my garden at the moment. The only new butterfly species to add to the four above is...
April 6th - Peacock Still waiting for the first Orange Tips and Holly Blues to show up. Some other critters are stirring though...
cheers
April 6th - Peacock Still waiting for the first Orange Tips and Holly Blues to show up. Some other critters are stirring though...
cheers
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Well... no sooner had I posted that last entry when I saw my next garden species...
April 15th - Orange Tip
I'd popped out into the garden to liberate the latest batch of Small Tortoiseshells that have been over-wintering in my potting shed/garage and are now seeking their freedom (a bonanza of 15 individuals today!), when I saw a lovely fresh male Orange Tip flutter slowly by the window as if to make a liar of me and my previous post. He didn't want to stop for a photo - so instead here's a few shots I've taken this year of native UK plants in my garden (though I confess that half of these are ones I've brought in, as opposed to being naturally occurring.)
April 15th - Orange Tip
I'd popped out into the garden to liberate the latest batch of Small Tortoiseshells that have been over-wintering in my potting shed/garage and are now seeking their freedom (a bonanza of 15 individuals today!), when I saw a lovely fresh male Orange Tip flutter slowly by the window as if to make a liar of me and my previous post. He didn't want to stop for a photo - so instead here's a few shots I've taken this year of native UK plants in my garden (though I confess that half of these are ones I've brought in, as opposed to being naturally occurring.)
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Love the flower photos Celery, sorry the Orange Tip didn't settle for you but at least you saw one Goldie
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Thanks Goldie ...still waiting for those Orange Tips to settle but at least I found something else sheltering in the geranium foliage today...
April 21st - Small White
A bit later than everywhere else perhaps, but hey-ho I ain't complainin'
April 21st - Small White
A bit later than everywhere else perhaps, but hey-ho I ain't complainin'
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First 'Blue' in the garden today...
Actually, it was...
April 24th - Holly Blue
...but I didn't get a picture of it so you'll have to make do with my Russian Blue instead.
Actually, it was...
April 24th - Holly Blue
...but I didn't get a picture of it so you'll have to make do with my Russian Blue instead.
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Spent a nice couple of hours walking at Charnwood Lodge Nature Reserve, near Coalville, Leics. yesterday (Sunday 26th April). Intermittent cloud, but the sunny moments brought out a profusion of Green Hairstreaks amongst the bilberries.
Some lovely individuals with well-marked brown-edged, spotted 'streaks' on both fore and hind-wing undersides - and others with an even bolder line of white spots on just the hind-wing underside.
cheers
Some lovely individuals with well-marked brown-edged, spotted 'streaks' on both fore and hind-wing undersides - and others with an even bolder line of white spots on just the hind-wing underside.
cheers
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Great Hair Streak photos celery, I've yet to photograph them this year, hope fully I will soon, love the close up shot Goldie
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HI Celery,
Beautiful Green Hairstreaks, I was hoping to see some today, alas none, but I did find some Pearl
Bordered Fritillaries, so I came home happy.
Best wishes,
TREVOR.
Beautiful Green Hairstreaks, I was hoping to see some today, alas none, but I did find some Pearl
Bordered Fritillaries, so I came home happy.
Best wishes,
TREVOR.
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Hi Celery,
Great Green Hairstreak photos. It seems that they are out everywhere except Warwickshire so far, mind you it seemed that way last year as well.
Cheers,
Neil
Great Green Hairstreak photos. It seems that they are out everywhere except Warwickshire so far, mind you it seemed that way last year as well.
Cheers,
Neil
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Nice images, Celery. I must catch up on this species very soon (particularly given that it's practically on my doorstep).
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Bit of time on my hands at the moment so here's a pictorial 2016 round-up.
Starting with Hesperiidae:
Baracoa Skipper Polites baracoa Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages Dorantes Longtail Urbanus dorantes Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
Starting with Hesperiidae:
Baracoa Skipper Polites baracoa Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages Dorantes Longtail Urbanus dorantes Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
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Hammock Skipper Polygonus leo
Horace's Duskywing Erynnis horatius
Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus
Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor
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Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus
Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon
Mallow Skipper Carcharodus alceae
Monk Skipper Asbolis capucinus
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Mangrove Skipper Phocides pigmalion
Oberthür's Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus armoricanus
Ocola Skipper Panoquina ocola
Red-underwing Skipper Spialia sertorius
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Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris
Southern Broken-Dash (Wallengrenia otho)
Three-spotted Skipper (Cymaenes tripunctus)
Tropical Checkered-skipper (Pyrgus oileus)
...and one final one... what I'm told is a Safflower Skipper Pyrgus carthami... but I ain't no Pyrgus expert so it might be something different - feel free to chip in if you reckon I've labelled it wrong...
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Thoroughly enjoying your posts, Celery.
I'd have little hesitation in calling carthami for that last Pyrgus skipper.
Guy
I'd have little hesitation in calling carthami for that last Pyrgus skipper.
Guy
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Thanks Guy - your kind comments and help with IDs are always greatly appreciated.
Pieridae
Barred Yellow Eurema daira Berger's Clouded Yellow Colias alfacariensis Black-veined White Aporia crataegi Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni
Pieridae
Barred Yellow Eurema daira Berger's Clouded Yellow Colias alfacariensis Black-veined White Aporia crataegi Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni
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