Good year for Ringlets?

[ellen h]

Plenty round here too,as well as Meadow browns and Speckled wood.
Also saw two gatekeepers today
ellen

[Geoff F]

Here, S. Devon, there are good numbers of Ringlets but the distribution is very patchy. Plenty amongst rough grass alongside a wood today, plus the first gatekeepers and a comma. But in similar grassland alongside the coast path it is mostly fritillaries and small heaths.

[earthdragon64]

It was my husbands birthday today so he decided he'd like to walk around the nature trail at the RSPB reserve at Insh Marshes, and we had a fantastic walk.

Apart from a few birds, we saw 10 species of Butterfly including over 100 Ringlets, my first this year. The species we saw:
Ringlet
Northern Brown Argus
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
Small Tortoiseshell
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
Dark Green Fritillary
Common Blue
Small Heath &
Meadow Brown

We also saw quite a few moths, 3 species of Dragonfly and a Damselfly and numerous wild flowers including Fragrant, Heath-spotted and Northern Marsh orchids.

The weather was fantastic so we then went to an old sort of quarry area just to the south of Aviemore where I re-discovered a colony of Northern Brown Argus last year. We saw 9 species of Butterfly, everything we had seen at Insh Marshes apart from the Meadow Brown.

All in all a brilliant day, a birthday that hubby says he'll remember for a while.

[lync]

Ringlet in garden this morning, just managed to escape the cat.

[Jenny W]

Round my way Ringlets don't seem to be either up or nor down - they are the most common butterfly around though, closely followed by Meadow Brown. Interesting how many insects seem to be locally very abundant or locally very scarce this year - depending on location, at least from what I've heard from people, (round here insects seem to be having a great year).