Hi All, I took an executive decision & decided to amalgamate the Butterfly & Moth threads which may make it easier to find if it's used more!
These are the old threads from 2019 Beautiful butterflies https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/200195/beautiful-butterflies-2019#pifragment-4285=1
& Mostly Moths https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/198118/mostly-moths-2019/1273216#pifragment-4285=1
To start us off here are a few from the recent traps & wine rope,
this is a lovely Satelite from the 8th january
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
A few recent butterflies, Brown argus have been around for a week or 2
a Scarce Swallowtail sitting nicely
our first Southern White Admiral of the year, the underside colours are gorgeous
a Spotted Fritillary caterpillar I found while weeding the gravel by hand (well what else do you do in confinement)
a Lackey Moth caterpillar crossing the road
& finally a little micro-moth, only it's 2nd sighting in France & rare in UK too, it's my "find of the confinement" so far. It has 2 names, in the UK it's known as Phtheochroa schreibersiana
It was in a bush on the marshes, wouldn't settle & it flew off!!
I've drawn a 1km circle around our house & every day we go & explore another bit. It's tricky as we only have an hour & it takes 20 minutes to get the edge, 15 mins to poke around & 20 mins home. Still it's a challenge.
Stay safe all!
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Nige Flickr
Amazing find H, all your sightings are great, love the caterpillar ... IWOOT of course! M weeded ours over a few days last week but didn't present me with any'finds' Lol Ukmoths info ... ukmoths.org.uk/.../ How very inventive with the 1km circle, hoping you get more rare finds!
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Lot to learn
Some beauties there Hazel, slightly envious. Good idea of drawing your radius.
We are allowed 2 hours out and about a day. Today I managed to get in a trip to one of my survey sights. I was doing an emergency medication drop to a person on full isolation so took the opportunity to visit the site thats close by and to walk the dog.- managed to get it all done in the 2 hours
not much variety of species but the Green Hairstreaks are coming out to play
Looks like our recent spell of good weather might be about to go off
CinJ
Cin J