Butterflies and Moths 2023

Thanks for starting the thread, it's inspired me to take a look out for them.

It's not stealing my thunder - this is for everyone to post their moth and butterfly sightings from this, the current year - As I do surveys for both I tend to accumulate a lot of photos.

Well there goes comparing year to year sightings then lol...typical!

How about "Peewits butterfly thread", Kathy, then you can add to it whenever you like

Of course we are all looking forward to every members photos and observations sometimes im able to get a photo sometimes im not but when I can’t I would like to show people the butterfly or moth I seen sometimes I might just comment when  I can’t  get a photo of a species for me I would probably prefer to show everyone what iv seen when I seen one rather than comment and say what iv seen and describe it and I’m good at drawing so I was wondering if it would be ok to draw a picture and send a photo of the picture of the butterfly or moth iv seen when I can’t get a photo is that ok? 

the Butterfly and moth thread you made for any year is doing well so far

I got some photos for this thread which is for 2023

I was looking for insects and invertrevretes and moths 

and spotted a moth in the shed 

Not the way I wanted to find my first moth of the year but never mind cause  spiders need to eat aswell and it’s a lucky catch 

That was taken in Hucclecote. Last year I found a moth food parcel in my birdbath At least it wasn’t a moth food parcel in my birdbath in Kingsway I havint seen any in there yet anyway.  I wasn’t exspecting one in the bird bath last year at least I found one in a shed and not a bird bath so far this year.  iv been looking for a moth for a couple of months so even though its not particularly alive like the one I saw last year I still saw my first moth this year so that is  exiteing

Depending on if it’s sunny or not I might see if I can see any at the brook this afternoon