Sunday April 27th 2025, Lincoln,Lincolnshire, 22ºC high, 20 ºC at 5:15pm For myself, today I noted a significant change in ovipositing Brimstone behaviour, on "Thorny Buckthorn", about five oviposits in a row on a larval food plant growing in full shade. This was assumed to be temperature...

Easter Egg Discovery- Garden butterflies IMGs_6328.jpeg iPhone. Surveying early April, Orange-tip (OT) eggs on Garlic mustard (Garlic M) For a good chance of surveying an orange egg, like Jack by a hedge, look out for the Garlic M plants that were in afternoon sun and slightly more forward than oth...

April 8th 2025. Brimstone butterfly oviposited. Wild observation (Forestry England) Brimstone butterfly oviposited, mid afternoon (temperature about 15ºC, on Damp Woodland Rhamnus frangula, Lincolnshire Limewoods, Forestry England. My Advice: Just for clarification, I was a Land Surveyor. personally...

Ovipositing Brimstone April 1st 2025 near Lincoln, Lincolnshire Caterpillar hideout, appeared to get approval https://youtu.be/4XqcXHViSg0 #BirdNet that allowed butterflies to crawl out with wings closed IMG_6101.jpeg The point here was, as measured last year, a "Rhamnus calcareous" (&quo...

Torties have moved north. I saw three or four on Tuesday without even making a specific search for them. One settled on a road as I was pulling out from a car park in Hopeman, Moray. I had to 'give way' until it flew off :P Jack When I moved from Surrey to Lincolnshire in 2015, I left behind Spring...

I have updated my Small copper video.
If you have seen some of it before, thank you for your patience with watching some of it again & I appreciate a feedback communication, particularly if I have made a mistake that I had not noticed:
https://youtu.be/-2Qab9eTuAk

Kind Regards

Outdoors Brimstones "Philip's truth": Brimstones that life cycled outdoors, in temperatures not micro-climate changed by indoor spaces, tended not to produce adults with aberrations. These (below) were life cycled outdoors as garden Brimstones. I also, as "Garden Man" was agains...

Butterfly Timing One year, my earliest seasonal sighting of an Orange-tip butterfly was on April 2nd (a butterfly not from my property). That picture is now held as a seasonal garden work record, relating to seasonal flowering timings, in case I do more pre-season work, with a better remembered sea...

Butterfly Protection We had not found one of these locally in retail before. The holes size were approx. 8cm X1cm. They might be very suitable for final instar caterpillar crawl and pupation without bird interference, then butterfly internal crawl to light and exit for first flight. We insisted tha...

Larval food plant Hop Please can we have fully documented video life cycles of butterfly (and moth) species that use this plant? From notes, apparently that was definitely Comma, possibly Peacock and Red Admiral, even rumours of Holly blue and even Brown Argus? We want to understand more about Hop,...

February Jobs for Butterfly Life Cycles in Gardens in Lincolnshire Sow dry stored biennial seed that had a higher percentage germination success with a "frost cold period" 1. Garlic mustard (Might germinate February/March) . For at least four species of Family White life cycles. Might als...

Ask your very specialised UK wild flower retailer about something Garlic mustard biennial “plug plants in 2024/25” that will bolt flower in April 25 for Orange-tip butterfliy life cycles. 
Garlic mustard seed in July/Aug 2023 was collected and dry stored. Dry sown January/February 2024, a percentag...

Orange-tip life cycle IMG_4581.jpeg Christmastime was a nice surprise, to find that an ancient, large variety of English lavender (might have been a bit more similar to native European lavender), provided a suitable over-wintering position, for an Orange-tip. The lavender flower growth had finished...

Hi David, super timing! Nice photo, not capture (net or egg take) or shot (gun) of a Small skipper ovipositing on July 19th 2024, Hatfield Forest. Did you record, not just note (mental note) the species of grass she oviposited on? The grass might of had a flowering head that was more easily distingu...

Lincolnshire Wildlife Garden & December selective weeding to provide more growing space for wanted grazers later. Garden man December jobs, Wildlife Gardening in preparation for seasonal flowers & Grazers Premise People who only believed in watching and waiting for a better wildlife habitat...

Happy Advent & Butterfly Memories Updated English Peacock butterfly species video link: https://youtu.be/6yxZ6qw06CE "This was mostly my effort. I can update it again. Please provide feedback comments for me to read, as my partly sighted Spouse, was less helpful as an editor and a "fr...

IMG_0505.jpeg 2024 Holly blue sightings were significant for me, because I did not get to see hardly any summer generation. At least three more "urbanisers" in my neighbourhood, saw fit to remove another ancient ivy. That actually happened quite frequently in urban environments, when ther...

We hope Jack's around then (sorry I have not read Jack's diary recently). I will try and keep to this topic for now. This photo I titled, "sorry, no time to focus" You can see where the pupa lid lifts and clearly the sex of the butterfly just before it emerged. As I though someone was tryi...

More help with caterpillar id please This one appeared to be feeding on Teasel leaves, (first year biennial before flower "bolted") not sure (because of the time I wasn't given to study it) if it was a final instar, wandering Large white, prepared to eat different plant species, to extend ...

My Gardening, my interests & experience. Native Large Shrubs & Small trees. So far I have appeared to have missed some dated Holly blue Spring oviposits. This info. might help others spot what they are looking out for. Telling differences between native Alder Buckthorn (AB) and Native Dogwo...