Notes and Views - July 2017

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Notes and Views - July 2017

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A fascinating series of images, showing a Holly Blue emerging from its pupa, posted by Pauline Richards in her personal diary viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6199&start=2640#p121862
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A rather early sighting of a fresh male Long-tailed Blue in a garden in Ipswich, Suffolk by Neil Sherman on 9th July. Reported on Twitter (with photograph) https://twitter.com/neilshermanmoth/sta ... pdates.php

Another, this time a female, was photographed on Everlasting Pea in a garden in Hassocks, Sussex by Gary Faulkner on 23rd July. Reported on Sussex BC website http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/


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A rare shot of an ovipositing Purple Empress : https://twitter.com/Sussex_Warblers/sta ... 8246620161

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Pete Eeles wrote:A rare shot of an ovipositing Purple Empress : https://twitter.com/Sussex_Warblers/sta ... 8246620161

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