Butterflies and Moths 2023

Well lets hope we see a few more Linda, with a walk like that they shall be worth waiting for

19th June 

A cabbage White Butterfly visited for abit today 

I also saw a Box tree moth in the garden again like last year Iv seen it in the garden 2 days in a row now the first day it was on the Hornbeam tree and today it was on my Buddlea Butterfly Bush shrub

Iv had a lot of moth caterpillars since Spring but didn’t spot a Box tree moth caterpillar. Im mainly getting hiverfly larvae now rather than Butterfly and moth caterpillars. Weather the Tortrix moths in the garden came from the tortrix moth caterpillars in the garden is hard to know cause I didn’t get to see the transformation and I don’t know if the vine rustic caterpillar has successfully transformed or not either. It could be this box tree moth came from the local area again like last year 

19th June 

Box Tree Moth 

White Plume Moth 

Hucclecote, Gloucestershire 

grass veneer moth

it acidently got in the house 

Kingsway, Gloucestershire 

Thanks. The white plume in Hucclecote was encountered by chance cause I was on a dog walk with my family and it just perched on the leaf right in front of me So I stopped as soon as it landed then went around the other side of the leaf approached it and took a photo. It stayed in the same place and the same posture when I walked away aswell so either didn’t notice me or didn’t take much notice.

The moth that acidently got in at Kingsway I don’t know when that got in but people have bee. Leaving the door open so it was probably open while I was in Hucclecote if it didn’t get in then it could of been when one of the people in the house let there dog into the garden before I went for my medication. Either way it was perched on the blind and then the window later I opened the window and encouraged it to go outside and it did go out eventually.