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Anyone seen any butterflies?

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  • shazza 3shazza 3 Posts: 197
    We had a few fluttering around last week but it's gone cooler again now. Hopefully if the weather is warmer next week there'll be a few more
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Just saw a Red Admiral feasting on my Dianthus 'Sooty'.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    First Red Admiral of the year seen here today, too.  Must be RA day! :D
    It decided to feed right at the top of a deutzia and took this while standing on a garden chair from from a few feet away, so not the best focus:

    Butterfly numbers in general are definitely down on last year in this neck of the woods.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think I saw a little brown job out of the corner of my eye today. It was near the about to bloom marjoram. There's hope yet!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Mark-EMark-E Posts: 184
    We haven't seen many, only a couple of Red Admirals. Definitely not as many as last year.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I see from a report from our local park that we currently have 26 identifed types. I don't know how they exactly differentiate between flutterbys and moths, but there we are. Reading this forum, 26 does not seem that much, but I guess it's decent for an urban space.

  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    We've had a shortage of butterflies up till now but I came home from a night away today and the hebes are covered in clouds of small tortoiseshells. I think they must just have hatched. Lovely!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've been pruning a very large bay tree today and little orange things fluttered out. I assume they were moths as they were lurking in the dark but I don't know
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    One gatekeeper on the marjoram  and a white job out of the corner of my eye 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Large white, meadow browns, speckled woods, red admiral, small blue, magpie moth in the garden today before the rain started.
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