Butterflies

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,444

  July 2014

  Lyn, there's often confusion between nectar plants for adult insects and food plants for larvae. They are not the same thing. A lot of the larvae food plants are 'weeds' and no-one wants them. The larvae are caterpillars and no-one wants them except a few loonies like me

  Any old plant with plenty of nectar will do for the adults

   

   

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Ginglygangly Posts: 243

  July 2014

  I am so excited. Saw a beautiful moth in the garden this morning and have managed to identify it as a Jersey Tiger moth. Now I can say I have had a tiger in my garden!

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• greg 4 Posts: 38

  July 2014

  Took this one at the weekend. This is my first image upload so fingers crossed ..........

  

  
  

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• greg 4 Posts: 38

  July 2014

  ...............now why doesn't it enlarge when you click on it ? 

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• greg 4 Posts: 38

  July 2014

  Can I try again ?

  

  
  
  image hosting over 10mb

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• greg 4 Posts: 38

  July 2014

  I'm using    http://postimg.org/

  and I have about 8 choices! I was hoping to get a thumbnail that opened into a large image when clicked on.

  Any ideas ?

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• Singing Gardener Posts: 1,237

  July 2014

  Hi Greg

  The latest one looks pretty good to me when I click on it to get the enlarged version. A lovely peacock butterfly!

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• greg 4 Posts: 38

  July 2014

  nmmmmm!.............. it wasn't doing that last night!

  Also, that message ' Image hosting over 10Mb ' isn't something I've put there !

  I'll have to look into it a bit more 

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• Dave Morgan Posts: 3,123

  July 2014

  Yesterday I counted( with some help) 18 butterflies in the garden. Large Whites, small whites, peacock, comma, meadow brown and a red admiral. Me thinks the effort has been worth it.

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• greg 4 Posts: 38

  July 2014

  That's a great total !

  Hope you reported them here .................

  http://www.bigbutterflycount.org/?gclid=CIahsc-f0b8CFVIPtAodFFMANQ

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