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On the trail of the purple emperor
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 9:18 am
by Charles Nicol
An excellent piece in today's Telegraph by Matthew Oates.
He visits the Knepp Estate in Sussex which is a Purple Emperor stronghold.
The photo
does not look like a typical Iris ?
Re: On the trail of the purple emperor
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 11:08 am
by Padfield
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I'd be very surprised if even Matthew Oates could find a southern white admiral in Sussex! Standards at the Torygraph are slipping ...
Guy
Re: On the trail of the purple emperor
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 12:12 pm
by Charles Nicol
Padfield wrote:![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
I'd be very surprised if even Matthew Oates could find a southern white admiral in Sussex! Standards at the Torygraph are slipping ...
Guy
hehehe.... it is great that Butterflies are being promoted, even if they are not quite the right ones
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