
Wall

Queen of Spain

Clouded yellow

Clouded yellow egg

Berger's pale clouded yellow

Painted lady

Red admiral

Adonis blue

Grayling

Tree graying (the only one not on the British list)
This mantis had got herself a grasshopper!!


Guy
Reminds me of a few years back. I had stick insects. Started with two males and two females. Ended up with 100+ by the end of that year. I gave many away and ended up doing what you did, putting my last few on brambles near my house and they died in winter.I had stick insects when I was a kid (rescued from a laboratory). Stick insects are nearly all females (mine were all female) and just sit around munching bramble leaves while churning out eggs, which bounce on the bottom of the cage all night and hatch out into hundreds and hundreds more stick insects... In the year I had them I never saw a male, though they can be generated (insect females are XY and males XX, so females can make males). In the end, I put my stick insects on the bramble at the bottom of the garden when we went on holiday at the end of August, knowing they would go torpid and die when the winter came. They did. But they had a pretty good life before then.
Or reptilespadfield wrote:I wouldn't like to see one in a cage (quite apart from the fact you'd have to feed it with live insects).
Typical. The only one I saw and it was a "gonner" within secondsMikhail wrote:Guy, I think it's a Moroccan Rock Lizard Lacerta perspicillata. Known only from Minorca in Europe, where it was first noted in 1928, a presumed introduction. Ref. Collins Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe. A nice find, Pete.
Misha