Brimstone relationship? A species of spider that was seen living on English Buckthorn in May-July, when immature stages of a Brimstone Life cycle were there. Please can someone tell me more about this species and in what way does it (if it does) interact with the immature stages of Brimstone, even ...

Brimstone egg laying preference; more oviposits please Generally noting, I thought that a female Brimstone clung to a May leaf in a comfortable way, a bit like a Large white butterfly might cling to a large nasturtium or Cabbage leaf, in a discrete way, with her wings closed, which often ended in a...

Thanks David, In my opinion, we need to make sure that the native UK wild flower plant identification apps for mobile phones get this right and as a team, embarrass the plant identification apps, that were the worst offenders. Even if they gave a percentage chance of correctness, it in my opinion, w...

Gardening For Butterflies-Cuckoo flower We have had a wet year and it might have been good growing conditions for Cuckoo flower "If you live in the South of England and had bought much grazed Cuckoo flower from an Authorised Wild Flower Retailer, you might of had some very long stems that had ...

Good timing, Phil. A couple of hours ago I managed to take a photograph of an Orange-tip ovipositing on Oil-seed Rape Brassica napus subsp. oleifera : 2024.05.15 Orange-tip Baddow Meads.jpg Hello dlaz44, Looks a bit like Field Mustard with smaller seedpods. I need to be careful not to upset a farme...

"Ranger Hamza and the Ramblers go on an eco quest to find out about butterflies and moths." 14 minutes 11 Dec 2023 Was available to view on BBC iPlayer An interesting educational opportunity for Butterfly boys and Girls, apparently, below the age of 12. Simple Principles about Butterflies ...

Orange Tip (OT) egg laying seasonal timing Remember to collect Dames violet seed later in the year, for floral displays. For me Dames violet was very easy to grow plugs from seed. I found Orange-tip had a preference for Dames Rocket later in a season, when Garlic mustard seedpods might have been ve...

Act to fully protect butterflies that over-wintered as Adults & Spring female butterflies that were individual egg ovipositors, in multiple locations, butterfly species with just one annual generation. Can you list all the UK species that fit, or might fit into this category?
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Red Admiral Timing May 13th 2024 17:03pm Red Admiral Migrant (or long distance flyer) to a Lincolnshire Garden I thought this was the first Red Admiral I had seen this year, near Lincoln and I thought I had not seen one since about, last November: IMG_1087 2.jpeg May 13th 2024 1703pm Local Weather ...

Orange-tip butterfly and Speckled wood badge?
I wasn't quite sure who the RSPB were fishing for? #Black-veined white
"The wing tips of this butterfly badge, did not look very orange compared with species ID. Was that, or was there a complaint?

Has anyone got a Speckled wood badge yet? What do I need to do, or where do I need to go, to buy one? FullSizeRender 2.jpeg For my memory, it was those life cycle timings, that happened on my late Grandmother Grace's birthday. When all the car horns, sirens, beeps and whistles had passed, I remember...

April 30th 2024, Snakholme pit, Lincolnshire 13:30pm I thought I would add this one for seasonal timing. It was the first female Orange-tip butterfly I had seen near Lincoln this Spring and I think I observed one of her first flights before pairing.

It's April 23rd 2024 and local general air temperatures, forecast for today, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire with winds from the north, will reach a maximum of 10ºC. General air temperatures with wind from the north east, have been much the same, for the last week. Locally, some male Orange-tip butterfli...

Nasturtiums & White Butterflies Updated Content, that included growing Nasturtiums in the timing before last English Spring frost to display flowers in the "June gap" (a talked about month in recent history, where White butterflies were less numerous, between generations and before ma...

April 2nd 2024 My seasonally earliest ever note, of a male Orange-tip butterfly, in direct sunlit afternoon flight, near Lincoln. April 11th 2024. IMG_0311.jpeg Male woodland butterflies surveyed by Melissa and I from April 14th 2024. Lincolnshire male butterflies The male forewings of the Spring g...

Outdoor Survey Conservation of Seasonal Timings In 2024, Butterfly Conservation Identified many different ways, in which enthusiasts might get involved in the surveying of butterflies: https://butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/recording-and-monitoring/find-out-what-scheme-works-best-for-you 

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Dear Butterfly enthusiasts. I have kept a UKB diary now for over 10 years! Help in Identifying Brimstone Butterfly Ovipositing Timings March 29th 2024, I noted that my neutral to acidic damp loving Alder Buckthorn Brimstone bush, was ahead of my calcarious loving native Buckthorn, in seasonal leaf b...

Re-digitalising old film photos with original dates (Pictures of pictures). There might be, or have been a wider debate about this. "This general, wider approach, might have relied on the software honesty of porn deletion" - My comment. Red Admiral, November 15th 1994 (Missing time= lunch...

How do our native violets that liked shade, cope with autumnal leaf fall and or layers of snow, being in perennial leaf, low on the woodland ground? 
 My visit to Sweden in 2017, where site specifically, there were many species of Fritillary, also had more winter snow than in the United Kingdom. Col...

Having read about this species on this website under Glanville Fritillary and not knowingly visited scarce sites where the butterfly was, this is the context in which my ideas are based and assumptions made or information repeated: "It was originally named the Lincolnshire Fritillary" in t...