There was some unusually warm weather in March which seems to have helped the insects to emerge early. It also seems to have triggered some of my daylilies into producing flowers unusually early - they look like flowering in a couple of weeks, while most show no signs of flowering.
I have finished my earn-my-living job, and wow, you have also noticed that they are early this year. I wasn’t sure.
While cutting the leaves from a fern at the beginning of March, I found a “bright line brown eye” moth caterpillar eating the green from the fern.
The little blue butterflies in my garden are not Holly Blue. They are little and light neon blue. It’s the first time that I saw such a butterfly in my garden.
We had a mild winter and honestly I saw in the recent days more butterflies than in the recent years ( can only compare to years from 2016).
@Simone_in_Wiltshire freshly emerged Holly Blues will look very blue, as they are blue on the upperside and mostly blue on the underside (whereas other blue species are mixed silvery, pale brown, black, orange and white on the underside). @Dovefromabove only females have the black border on the upperside - the males are all blue
A Swallowtail on my flowering sage. Black, beige with the red spots at its base. What a magnificent butterfly !! Too late to dash inside to get my snap shotter!!
A Swallowtail on my flowering sage. Black, beige with the red spots at its base. What a magnificent butterfly !! Too late to dash inside to get my snap shotter!!
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In the sticks near Peterborough
I ♥ my garden.
I shall keep looking … 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.