BUTTERFLY'S(where are they)

~Chameleon~

Since my last post I've seen loads of peacocks in the garden and also this afternoon I'm 99% certain I saw an Adonis Blue

I know this is a fairly rare butterfly, hence my 99% positive, but it was too deep a blue on the upperside wings to be one of the more common blues, going by this site, and it actually closed it's wings showing me the underside too

Also seen a few Meadow Browns too

KAAT_LADY

I saw one today it was brown with cream spots but dont know what it is

~Chameleon~

KAAT_LADY wrote: »

I saw one today it was brown with cream spots but dont know what it is

This is a great site for helping to ID them

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/index.php

Davesnave

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

This is a great site for helping to ID them

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/index.php

Yes! That's where I've been cribbing all my IDs from!

~Chameleon~

I've come to the conclusion that the reason we're seeing so many of the cabbage white flutterbys around is due to more and more people growing veg at home! I must have just counted around 20-30 of the pesky things flying around my garden just now :rolleyes:

It's not just my brassicas they're after either as I've just discovered tiny baby caterpillars on my nasturtiums, raspberries and hollyhocks! There'll be no greenery left in my garden at this rate! :eek:

The hedge sparrows seem to have taken a fancy to my brassica patch this morning too so I'm hoping they're trying to help me in the fight to eradicate the caterpillars :rotfl:

Chris25

Chameleon - many thanks, that's a great site - very useful

(my buttons don't seem to be working anymore so I can't click on your thanks button)

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I've got a beautiful,what looks like a meadow brown on my dining room curtains.It flew in yesterday and so far apart from fluttering it's wings a couple of times seems to have gone back to sleep.How can I get it outside without damaging it.

SKIPPY54

I have just got my free seeds from saveourbees.org.uk.
If everyone was to plant a corner of their garden with wild flower seeds it would go a long way towards saving our native and wild bee population.

As it say's in the letter that came with the seeds; "if bee populations carry on declining at the current rate then it is predicted that they could disappear from britain by 2018"

As we all know bee's are needed for pollination to ensure future seed stock,
without them there are no seeds,no future plants and a gloomy future for mankind.

Bee's are in decline,please for the sake of generations to come plant bee freindly gardens,lets start now and save the bee to save us.

Sorry to have to resurect this post but we all need to help,however small the contribution.

Davesnave

It's a noble cause, but it does rather give the impression that bees need us to plant something special or 'wild,' and many people with small town gardens will probably shy away from the latter.

I've stuck one forum link and a couple of others which list good bee plants on the end of this. There's loads of plants, from very cultivated to completely wild, to choose from, so nobody need feel they can't help:

http://www.newtonabbotbees.org.uk/bees7.htm

http://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/features/plants-for-bees/

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/wildflowers-plants-and-tree-forums/10118-plants-bees.html

My heather was absolutely buzzing this week with honey bees. I have never had heather before, being on alkaline clay, but this is a rented house and I've inherited rather a lot of plants I wouldn't choose to grow, especially the weeds!

KAAT_LADY

Seen My First Butterflies And A Huge Great Big Bumble