It's well overdue for starting. This is the link to last years thread
Butterflies and Moths 2023
There haven't been a lot of butterflies around here this year so far. The earliest was a fresh Red Admiral on the 3rd of january
Since then I've seen a Speckled Wood & Peacock. There have been Brimstone's about but I haven't seen them. Plenty of time left in the year to go chasing butterflies.
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Excellent shot Mrs Ed. You're not on your own not seeing any butterflies in your garden. I have a buddleia in mine which has not had any visitors at all ...
Thanks Billysdad. I've been looking at every buddleia we have passed to see if there are any butterflies hanging around but sadly none.
Forgot that I had also seen this Speckled Wood in the garden on 19th July:
It's all come good here in East Kent in last few days, sunny & quite warm and at long last my buddleias have been dripping with Peacocks & Red Admirals with the occasional Comma ... biggest problem is that the buddleias came into bloom far ahead of the butterfly visits this year and are already more than halfway over ....
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
How is the bramble doing Wendy?
Cin J
Bits & pieces here & there but over-zealous pruning by he who will not be named ...have issued
'pain of death' warning if my nettle bed gets touched!!
Some pics & footage of some of my visitors yesterday & today ... very lucky to have the Red & White buddleia about 2 to 3 feet from my lounge bay window
Super video presentation Wendy. Much healthier than my Buddleia, mine has never really grown bushy, just thin and leggy. Maybe that's why it get no visitors ...
Many thanks BD ... do you cut your buddleia back to around one foot tall in Spring? Do you know which variety you have?
Nice video Wendy.
Thank you William, as the blossoms are so near to my window I tried to get views of the proboscis dipping into individual flowers ... the main obstacle I have is leaded light windows which don't open wide enough!