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Speckled Wood butterfly

On 30/04/2013 in forum

Saw a Speckled Wood butterfly in our back garden today - my first sighting.


Plants to attract butterflies

On 30/04/2013 in forum

Has anyone grown Verbena Lollipop?  How attractive to butterflies is it? Is it as good as Verbena bodnatense? They love it! (Think you meant verbena bonariensis. )


Talkback: First butterflies of the year

On 28/11/2011 in forum

Wow this is amazing I love butterflies. Spring is my favourite time of the year because that is when there are most of them. Once my step-cousin once removed ate one by accident, he said it tasted weird. I was watching a peacock butterfly a few days


Talkback: Butterfly chrysalis

On 28/11/2011 in forum

What other butterflies overwinter in the UK? Reply to Mrs CullenAll of Britain's 55 or so resident butterfly species overwinter here, but in different stages of their development. Hairstreaks overwinter as eggs, cabbage whites as chrysalides


Cabbage Butterflies & Nasturtium

On 19/08/2012 in forum

) to tempt the Butterflies on to the Nast. instead. I'm slightly confused though as wouldn't growing both increase the number of Cabbage Butterfly & caterpillars overall on the cabbages? Or is it a case of using the Nast. to tempt them in so they can be, ahem


Talkback: Garden butterflies

On 28/11/2011 in forum

I love butterflies - and on my birthday 16th April the most beautiful peacock butterfly visited my garden - as if by invitation! love butterflies nice article With the lovely weather just now I found quite a few butterflies visiting out garden


Talkback: Butterflies in the garden

On 28/11/2011 in forum

Peacock butterflies that have overwintered in my garage are having a great time on my winter(?) -flowering heathers. They love feeding there as much as the painted ladies do later on at the phuopsis. I do attempt to photograph my butterflies


Talkback: Holly blue butterflies

On 29/04/2012 in forum

butterflies last week in my garden in Cornwall but I was so surprised that I didn't even think to identify them. Must get my camera at the ready. Had a few bees too & where are all the wood lice cop0ming from in my conservatory? I always help them to go


First butterflies of the year

On 22/04/2009 in Wildlife

At last, a butterfly in my garden. Now I know from comments on previous blogs that others have already seen lots this year. There's a tendency to brag about them, I think. But my garden was empty of butterflies until Saturday. Then, like buses


Talkback: Big Butterfly Count

On 28/11/2011 in forum

We're seeing less butterflies in our garden too, whereas we used to have loads. Yesterday I saw a holly blue, a second generation one. One of the things they feed on, apparently, is honeydew, the stuff that comes out of aphids's bottoms. It's great


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