Spring 2024 Male Speckled wood butterfly diary, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire First Speckled wood on the wing in 2024, I recorded on April 11th 2024 IMG_0309.jpeg Some of the first butterflies to emerge were seen in a window of opportunity, around a warmer lunchtime or early afternoon, when direct sun...

The funniest thing (or not funny at all) about this thread, was that, if it was me, a local Government noticed surveying, someone thought there might be a "tipping point" regarding "Seriously Upset" and where to send a sub-contractor to do some work. Nettle Management & lets ...

4. "White icon", Family Trail near to a "Master tree" at a Bookham Commons high point. The Purple Something arrow, definitely appeared to be pointing up! At this point I would like to apologise for showing this picture so much on UKB, but I thought that I had a specifically diffe...

3. Light shade of T-Shirt "A white dinner plate might be slippery for a butterflies feet, one might try a disposable dinner plate"

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White or cream coloured (Apparently preferable) May/June Landing Pads for UK Red Admiral Migrants after Long Distance Flights Philip was right about something: In lower lit conditions (possibly woodland) or less light weather conditions (Late afternoon cloud, after sunny lunchtime) specifically, th...

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...