France September.
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:43 am
France, September.
Our September visit to France was to revisit some of our favorite locations.
Maillezais is a small village situated in the Vendée in the region known as the Green Venice, the ruined Abbey of Saint-Pierre makes it a popular tourist attraction, incidentally it is twinned with Glastonbury, Somerset just eight miles from my Somerset home.
As for butterflies it was disappointing unlike previous visits but outside the campsite office I spotted flitting around the Pelargoniums some very tiny butterflies that on close examination proved to be Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshalli) they were much smaller than the ones I've seen in the Abbey grounds, perhaps the drought and hot conditions are in some way was responsible.
Our September visit to France was to revisit some of our favorite locations.
Maillezais is a small village situated in the Vendée in the region known as the Green Venice, the ruined Abbey of Saint-Pierre makes it a popular tourist attraction, incidentally it is twinned with Glastonbury, Somerset just eight miles from my Somerset home.
As for butterflies it was disappointing unlike previous visits but outside the campsite office I spotted flitting around the Pelargoniums some very tiny butterflies that on close examination proved to be Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshalli) they were much smaller than the ones I've seen in the Abbey grounds, perhaps the drought and hot conditions are in some way was responsible.