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Post by Cotham Marble on Mar 12, 2016 10:52:11 GMT
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Post by aeshna5 on Mar 12, 2016 17:25:29 GMT
I shall be participating in this. I was hoping I might see my first butterfly in the garden this afternoon but had to make do with 2 male Anthophora plumipes.
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Post by shirl100 on Mar 12, 2016 17:42:47 GMT
I eagerly checked it out but I send all my butterfly sightings to our county recorder anyway and it does say only send in data to one source. Still at least my records will be included via other means .
Haven't seen a butterfly so far this year, last year my first sighting in Derbyshire was 3rd April so may have to wait a bit longer (unless we have a heatwave)
Shirl
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Post by rowanberry on Jun 27, 2016 7:55:47 GMT
I was going to participate in this, but still haven't seen a butterfly in the garden! How sad is this?  And how worrying. |
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Post by shirl100 on Jun 27, 2016 8:41:18 GMT
I was going to participate in this, but still haven't seen a butterfly in the garden! How sad is this? And how worrying. i have seen a few in the garden and meadow but the numbers are really quite low, even this morning walking the dog lovely sunshine so I was hopeful - in just over 2 hours I saw 1 Large Skipper and nothing else. We will just have to hope the unsettled weather stops soon. |
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Post by htcdude on Jun 27, 2016 9:03:25 GMT
I've also hardly seen any butterflies around recently, just the odd day with small bursts. Same with moth numbers, they've also been lower (except for Diamond-back Moths!)
Nige
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Post by lizb on Jun 28, 2016 15:48:08 GMT
I have only seen a couple of butterflies in my garden this year. Normally I have quite a few. Generally numbers of most insects are down despite the fact that I turned the garden over to more bee and butterfly friendly planting last year. Some of the bees have done a bit better - especially Anthophora plumipes, Bombus hynorumn and a species of mining bee I have yet to identify that seems to have moved in in great numbers. Oh, and I have seen several diamond-backed moths! Is there something significant in this visitor from France?!?
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 28, 2016 16:40:32 GMT
Many millions of Diamond Back Moths arrived throughout the UK earlier this month. They are found over most of the world but the recent invasion is thought to have arrived from the Baltic given the prevailing winds at the time.
Though I'm not around a great deal I have to agree that insect numbers of many species seem low- especially in my garden, though like you had good numbers of A. plumipes in the spring. Seen very few B. hypnorum so far. Just back from mountains in Bulgaria + so many butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets + more irritating flies than I'd have liked. Mind you the temperature was consistently in the 30's.
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Post by lizb on Jun 28, 2016 16:51:31 GMT
I was in Corfu last week, where there were also lots of butterflies, day-flying moths, multitude of grasshoppers, flies (including some that obviously found me very tasty!), etc. Even the odd snake. I was trying to follow in the footsteps of Gerald Durrell!
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Post by htcdude on Jun 29, 2016 9:09:41 GMT
It has been such a poor spring again though, took ages for the season to get going and when it eventually did it only last a couple of weeks (if that!). Now it's just miserable again. Roll on July!
Nige
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And how worrying.
