look what i found in my long grass this morning

Biggles

balletshoes wrote: »

I don't think I've seen one like this since I was a kid

Crikey! I do hope you're either still very young or just very unobservant - they're still very common throughout the British Isles.

balletshoes

Biggles wrote: »

Crikey! I do hope you're either still very young or just very unobservant - they're still very common throughout the British Isles.

i must be very unobservant - its been ages since i've even seen a butterfly that size in my garden, never mind one so colourful (we get lots of the pale yellow/off white ones, whatever kind they are).

Elsewhere

balletshoes wrote: »

i must be very unobservant - its been ages since i've even seen a butterfly that size in my garden, never mind one so colourful (we get lots of the pale yellow/off white ones, whatever kind they are).

If you're talking about this time of year, the pale yellow ones are brimstones.

Dizzy_Ditzy

Living_proof wrote: »

Talking about things found in the long grass, I cut my back lawn (meadow look-alike) last weekend and I just noticed a quivering tiny froglet clinging to the edge of the grass by a fence. I missed it with the lawnmower and the strimmer but haven't seen it since, although left an old china container full of water, just in case. I also saw a lot of ladybirds, also in the long grass. At my daughter's there were loads of butterflies in her standard plants - her cats were going mad jumping in after them!

I had a slow worm in my garden last week, or rather, my cat did :eek:

Davesnave

The cold spring and atrocious weather previous to that, wrought havoc with the insect population here in Devon last year.

I was in another village for over an hour in early summer 2013 and failed to see a butterfly or honey bee, despite plants like buddleia blooming.

This year things are better, insect wise, but there may be knock-on effects, such as a dearth of swallows. Normally, we'd have dozens by now, but I'd be lucky to see half a dozen today.