April 2nd 2024
My seasonally earliest ever note, of a male Orange-tip butterfly, in direct sunlit afternoon flight, near Lincoln.
April 11th 2024.
Male woodland butterflies surveyed by Melissa and I from April 14th 2024.
Lincolnshire male butterflies
The male forewings of the Spring generation of Green-veined white butterfly generally had much paler dark markings, than a faster life cycled summer generation.
Male Holly blue also seen, but not photographed.
Some female Orange-tip butterflies, clearly, had not emerged yet.
On Friday 19th 2024
A coldish breeze, external temperature reading in my car read 12ºC at about the same time as male Orange-tip butterflies took to the wing, in a sheltered location, with direct lunchtime sunlight, where a micro-climate might have made it slightly warmer.
This Spring, locally near Lincoln, I had not yet identified a female of any butterfly species, apart from one Brimstone and perhaps I was not looking hard enough at the Small Tortoiseshell (numbers appeared to be down, since 2015-2022) and Peacocks.
For early and late Spring butterflies, recommended place to look was north side of Lincoln gap (South facing bank of River Witham, cut through the Limestone geology. Places for n(ature and the view) included Lincoln's Liquorice Park.
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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 mass migration arrival).
https://youtu.be/eBZ__qr2XOI
Some interesting content:
"This was a Large white butterfly, that laid eggs in batches, in a same, or similar location.
In 2023, some seed packet varieties of Nasturtiums available, had smaller leaves and flowered more profusely, as some growers wanted to try and avoid this butterfly species attention."
The truth is out there,
Kind Regards
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 mass migration arrival).
https://youtu.be/eBZ__qr2XOI
Some interesting content:
"This was a Large white butterfly, that laid eggs in batches, in a same, or similar location.
In 2023, some seed packet varieties of Nasturtiums available, had smaller leaves and flowered more profusely, as some growers wanted to try and avoid this butterfly species attention."
The truth is out there,
Kind Regards
Kind Regards,