How lovely, it seems to be the year of the butterfly, we have loads on the buddlia and other flowers, we do have an enormous patch of nettles and brambles that just get left every year, so I suppose they breed, but I have never seen then in that wild patch, maybe they are discreet breeders.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
He's lovely nut. Don't think we get them up here. Lots of peacocks appearing now and hopefully red admirals soon. Torties are in abundance though. A family went past my garden the other day and, as I have buddleias next to the boundary which were covered in torties, I heard the little boy saying excitedly to his mum 'I saw an orange butterfly'. They stopped to look so I had a chat with them. Nice when you see kids showing some interest.
That black insect looks a bit like a wood wasp. There's lots of different types of those so maybe a possibility.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi Phiilppa, it's an achillea. No particular variety, probably a seedling and not far off the wild. I can still see a remnant of the yellow in there though
The black insect is really very small Fairy. The butterfly is small, not much more than common blue size
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This summer has certainly been a great one for butterflies here. Perhaps it is not quite as gloomy as has been said.
No Small Coppers for me, but I do seem to have large numbers of Gatr Keepers which have arrived in the last week or so.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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How lovely, it seems to be the year of the butterfly, we have loads on the buddlia and other flowers, we do have an enormous patch of nettles and brambles that just get left every year, so I suppose they breed, but I have never seen then in that wild patch, maybe they are discreet breeders.
He's lovely nut.
Don't think we get them up here. Lots of peacocks appearing now and hopefully red admirals soon. Torties are in abundance though. A family went past my garden the other day and, as I have buddleias next to the boundary which were covered in torties, I heard the little boy saying excitedly to his mum 'I saw an orange butterfly'. They stopped to look so I had a chat with them. Nice when you see kids showing some interest.
That black insect looks a bit like a wood wasp. There's lots of different types of those so maybe a possibility.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi Phiilppa, it's an achillea. No particular variety, probably a seedling and not far off the wild. I can still see a remnant of the yellow in there though
The black insect is really very small Fairy. The butterfly is small, not much more than common blue size
In the sticks near Peterborough
Is the small Copper similar in size to the little Orange Tip ones? We get those here, and they're very small.
I've seen lots of little Fritillary types when hillwalking, but never close enough to get photos or see them properly.
I mean me hillwalking, not the butterflies.....
Imagine how tiny their little boots would be?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Nice image.
It's slightly smaller than an orange tip I'd say.
In the sticks near Peterborough
thanks for the differentiation!!
In the sticks near Peterborough