Significant Update
Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 7:50 pm
Hi all,
Some of you will have seen the upload of a significant number of images from Wolfgang Wagner today. Wolfgang runs the superb http://www.pyrgus.de website and has allowed me to take those images that help us fill gaps on UKB (the upload was actually made by me using the "Proxy" account that Vince and I use to upload images from 3rd parties). Our summary page at http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species_ ... =secondary is clearly better-populated and, if we remove adventives etc., as shown at http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species_ ... pe=primary, then we have just 3 images to locate - a Queen of Spain Fritillary egg, and Scarce Tortoiseshell egg and pupa.
Wolfgang's website also inspired me to allow habitat shots on UKB - something I've been wanting to include for some time. My initial perception was that we need a whole new category of image - for specific sites. In retrospect, I think this is misinformed since most sites actually contain a number of habitats, and specialist species are only found in a small area in any given site. For example, at one of my local sites, Greenham Common, Grayling are found on the areas of bare earth, Green Hairstreak are found on Hawthorn thickets and on the carpets of Bird's-foot Trefoil when the females are ovipositing, Dingy Skipper are found on the BFT and around Bramble Thickets and Grizzled Skipper are found around the Bramble and, in particular, around areas of Wild Strawberry (one of the larval food plants). I could go on.
The point is ... please take habitat shots this season! At some point you'll get the opportunity to upload them to UKB!
And all the best for 2015!
Cheers,
- Pete
Some of you will have seen the upload of a significant number of images from Wolfgang Wagner today. Wolfgang runs the superb http://www.pyrgus.de website and has allowed me to take those images that help us fill gaps on UKB (the upload was actually made by me using the "Proxy" account that Vince and I use to upload images from 3rd parties). Our summary page at http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species_ ... =secondary is clearly better-populated and, if we remove adventives etc., as shown at http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species_ ... pe=primary, then we have just 3 images to locate - a Queen of Spain Fritillary egg, and Scarce Tortoiseshell egg and pupa.
Wolfgang's website also inspired me to allow habitat shots on UKB - something I've been wanting to include for some time. My initial perception was that we need a whole new category of image - for specific sites. In retrospect, I think this is misinformed since most sites actually contain a number of habitats, and specialist species are only found in a small area in any given site. For example, at one of my local sites, Greenham Common, Grayling are found on the areas of bare earth, Green Hairstreak are found on Hawthorn thickets and on the carpets of Bird's-foot Trefoil when the females are ovipositing, Dingy Skipper are found on the BFT and around Bramble Thickets and Grizzled Skipper are found around the Bramble and, in particular, around areas of Wild Strawberry (one of the larval food plants). I could go on.
The point is ... please take habitat shots this season! At some point you'll get the opportunity to upload them to UKB!
And all the best for 2015!
Cheers,
- Pete