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
Thanks...I accidentally disturbed it when I was doing the edging with me scissors so had to follow it to it's next resting place..a will label it now
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
Oh another moth just landed on the decking...thought it was a leaf
Mother of pearl
Mother of Pearl
Cin J
Should she be out during the day...it is a tad windy
Not usually but maybe been disturbed from wherever she was hiding
Billysdad said:Always makes me think of pencil sharpenings
Now you mention it BD .......
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Lovely moths Linda, all I saw was a clothes moth in the bathroom who nicked off before I get get a pic!
Are there any studies that have associated that tiger with Ulex (and low pH soil, dry heath environments)?
Looks like gorse to me.
Not that I know of tuwit, It was on gorse and would count as coastal heath (exposed headland) - but given that I am on Jersey and they pop up all over the Island and are generalists and adaptive hence the steady spread through the UK, they can appear in many different environments. I have had +50 to a light trap and my garden is about as rural as you can get on a small Island.
Thanks Wendy, oh am forever catching them little ones and putting back outside!!