Butterfly invation.

[barquar]

wow what a difference the sun makes my Garden has been alive with Butterflies.
Last 2 days have seen a great increase in flying numbers.Mostly whites but a few browns but nothing out the ordinary as yet.But boy have i enjoyed them flittering about.Whats your garden been like.
Barquar

[ellen h]

I have seen a few species that I have never seen in the garden before the last few days.There has been speckled woods,gatekeepers even a meadow brown!!A lot of whites too and some painted ladies.
Today is overcast but very humid but there are butterflies flitting through...
ellen

[earthdragon64]

The weather has been quite good for a few days up here, I don't get many Butterflies in the garden until the Buddleia is out, but I see a fair few when I'm out and about.

The odd thing is that in the last couple of days, Small Tortoiseshells keep finding their way into the house, I often sit with the door open in summer. I've had to net a few today and then release them outside.

[kiltoncomp]

up until today, apart from the odd white butterfly we have had no butterflys in the garden at all,
today there are lots of painted ladies, which we have never seen in the garden before, peacock,comma, two or three other brown species, and lots of large whites, and a small blue one
the buddleas that they were feeding on have been in flower for quite sometime now, so its not the sudden flowering of those that has attracted them,

we have a shed hidden away at the top of the garden, that is very rarely used, today i had occasion to go in for something, and found several peacocks and small tortoiseshells fluttering against the glass window, they must have got in as catterpillars and pupated , emerging in the shed, but could not find a way out,
with a bit of gentle persuasion all regained the outdoors unscathed

Brian.

[Panda_]

Have noticed an increase in butterflies lately here, have managed to photograph a few too!
Red admiral
Meadow brown
Green veined whites
Painted lady

And just up the fields we get some orange tips too.

[barquar]

update: One very small blue and a white one with dark stripes on outer wing not had these in garden before, What a great day for butterflies hope the weather keeps up for them.
Barquar

[aeshna5]

It's been a pretty grey day around London until I got home late afternoon when the sun came out.

Then after seeing only a single Small White through the day the garden was alive with dozens of Large Whites, often on buddlejas + Verbena bonariensis; also a Small White, 3 Painted Ladies, a tatty Comma, a Gatekeeper + Speckled Wood.

It's been many years since I've seen the numbers of Large Whites that I've seen this summer. As I'm not a Brassica grower, they are very welcome!

[pammosley]

Loads of Whites around here, not had anything else in the garden though