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- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: 2024 - Large Tortoiseshell
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1724
Re: 2024 - Large Tortoiseshell
One photographed in an unspecified Bedfordshire wood as reported in the 'other' UK butterflies Facebook group. To avoid any confusion, that is the same butterfly (and venue) as Saturday - I was with the reporter on Sunday when his photo was taken (I had gone back with my "proper" camera a...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: 2024 - Large Tortoiseshell
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1724
Re: 2024 - Large Tortoiseshell
I saw a Large Tortoiseshell today in Potton Wood Bedfordshire (see April 2024 sightings forum post). Someone else must have seen it just before or afterwards as they posted on the Beds & Northants branch BC Facebook page...
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- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: April 2024
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2393
Re: April 2024
A strange day where fate played a HUGE part... My wife and I were going to look at the bluebells in one of a number of local woods. The first 2 were still closed due to flooded paths. We ended up at Potton Wood in Bedfordshire and after seeing the bluebells, we decided to wander along the rides as t...
Re: Awesome
When I was a young child during the 1960's, I spent many hours scanning the flowers on the Buddleia bush in my back garden - fully expecting that if I did so for long enough, I was bound to be able to spot every British species of butterfly as listed in my Observer's Book of British Butterflies :lol...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Conservation
- Topic: Rescuing Purple Hairstreak eggs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1246
Re: Rescuing Purple Hairstreak eggs
Thanks Chris
I'll never have a better chance, so fingers firmly crossed!
I'll never have a better chance, so fingers firmly crossed!
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Conservation
- Topic: Rescuing Purple Hairstreak eggs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1246
Re: Rescuing Purple Hairstreak eggs
Yesterday I was gutted to find that a lovely old mature Oak just South of my village has succumbed to one of the Autumn/Winter storms. Not sure how long it has been down, but decided I should try to rescue some of the doomed Purple Hairstreak eggs it housed. I now have 22 :D . I have tried (unsucces...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Long-tailed Blue ALERT
- Replies: 40
- Views: 12237
Re: Long-tailed Blue ALERT
A female spotted egg-laying in Bedfordshire today (reported on the Beds and Northants BC Facebook page), so it's starting
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:06 pm
- Forum: Foodplants and Gardening
- Topic: Foodplant for Brown Argus
- Replies: 2
- Views: 670
Foodplant for Brown Argus
There are good numbers of adult Brown Argus butterflies around at the moment near me in Cambridgeshire and some seem to be laying on small Meadow Cranesbill plants that are emerging after recent hay-cutting activities... I note that Common Rockrose or Dove's Foot Cranesbill are the usual primary foo...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:14 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Gatekeeper Egg
- Replies: 1
- Views: 744
Gatekeeper Egg
A Gatekeeper egg I found in my garden on Friday has coloured-up so I thought I'd try to get a detailed shot before it hatches... This image is made from two photos (one focussed on the front of the egg and the other focussed towards the back) stitched together. The shots were taken using a Canon MP-...
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 12:36 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2023
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11729
Re: August 2023
Noticed a female Gatekeeper probing around the grass under a bush in the garden yesterday and after it had flown, I managed to find an egg :D Gatekeeper.jpg Also, I noticed a Hummingbird Hawkmoth lay a single egg on some Ladies Bedstraw last week... It had hatched and eaten the eggshell when I went ...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Aberrations in central Lincolnshire
- Replies: 9
- Views: 806
Re: Aberrations in central Lincolnshire
...and what about that Peacock?... Whoaaahhh!
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Caterpillar ID
- Replies: 4
- Views: 464
Re: Caterpillar ID
Is it Holly or is it a Thistle?... and if it IS holly, are there stinging nettles under it somewhere
Re: May 2023
It's that same lens and camera combination Pauline. 8 shots stacked together (I should have done another one as the bottom of the egg is a bit blurry)
Re: May 2023
The glut of Holly Blues this Spring encouraged me to try to get a decent close-up shot of a Holly Blue egg on Dogwood. They are everywhere
Re: May 2023
I took it with a Canon MP-E 65 lens with a 2 x extender on a Canon R7 Pete. 13 individual shots focus-stacked (and heavily-cropped). You could probably photograph a micro moth with the lens at its minimum magnification Guy, but nothing any bigger.
Re: May 2023
Spotted a Comma egg on a stinging nettle in the garden before the rain started this morning. Only after taking a macro shot of it did I realise how speckled the surface is.
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:38 pm
- Forum: Chequered Skipper
- Topic: Chequered Skipper - Favourite Photo of 2022
- Replies: 6
- Views: 319
Re: Chequered Skipper - Favourite Photo of 2022
A male Chequered Skipper viewed head-on, showing the "all-orange" underside of the antennae - compared to the "half-black, half-orange" underside of the antenna of a female - (see inset). NB: The colour difference can ONLY be seen from directly underneath. Photos taken at the Eng...
- Sat Sep 03, 2022 6:10 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: September 2022
- Replies: 120
- Views: 6321
Re: September 2022
Heads up for a Grand Surprise guys... There seems to have been a potential influx of Camberwell Beauty - three seen in Cambs/Essex this month already!... Oh, and another Queen of Spain Fritillary!
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:49 am
- Forum: Foodplants and Gardening
- Topic: Foodplant for Adonis/Chalkhill Blues...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 324
Foodplant for Adonis/Chalkhill Blues...
I was watching some female Adonis Blues (and possibly late Chalkhill Blues) laying eggs on Therfield Heath yesterday. As well as the odd egg on Horseshoe Vetch, I saw quite a few other eggs of exactly the same size and shape on Salad Burnet and Mouse-Ear Hawkweed... Are either species of Blue known ...
- Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:32 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Anyone Help With I'd?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 314
Re: Anyone Help With I'd?
Looks like a fairly early instar Pale Tussock moth caterpillar