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26-03-2007, 03:14 PM
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| | | Butterflies
Well the butterflies think the spring is here. I've just seen a clouded yellow, I think, at some distance, and there is a peacock butterfly sunning himself on a piece of wood in the garden. Loads of things flying around, but I haven't been quick enough to I.D. them. My son saw a green moth or butterfly, but I missed it.
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26-03-2007, 03:25 PM
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I'd have thought it was a brimstone you saw this early in the year, but I wouldn't put money on it  Plenty of peacocks here, a few small tortoiseshells and zillions of these; 
Bring on the rest of them! 
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26-03-2007, 03:32 PM
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Yes it looks like it's going to be an excellent year for butterflies. It has been an unusually warm day today and while walking the dog this afternoon I spotted three Peacocks and a Small Tortoiseshell! Nicola.
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26-03-2007, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by badgerwatcher  Well the butterflies think the spring is here. I've just seen a clouded yellow, I think, at some distance, and there is a peacock butterfly sunning himself on a piece of wood in the garden. Loads of things flying around, but I haven't been quick enough to I.D. them. My son saw a green moth or butterfly, but I missed it. | A bit early for clouded yellow. Could it have been a male Brimstone?. This is the commonest yellow flutterby at this time of year when they wake up from hibernation  |
26-03-2007, 05:21 PM
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I don't know, I'm useless at butterflies. It was very yellow!
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26-03-2007, 06:57 PM
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i am conducting a habitat study into british butterflies for my dissertation this involves many hours of transect walking and i didnt think i would have to start my study again til the end of march but i have already seen some tortoiseshells and a i would like to say that i saw a clouded yellow today as i was driving through my village but as it is way to early for them i would say it was a brimstone as they in adult form can be seen from as early as Jan.
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26-03-2007, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by badgerwatcher I don't know, I'm useless at butterflies. It was very yellow! | Male Brimstones are a bright lemon yellow + probably what you saw. Clouded Yellows are smaller, normally orange-yellow with black borders + mainly a migrant species, though in recent years has been able to overwinter on parts of the Dorset coast. Normally don't appear inland until at least May. |
26-03-2007, 07:45 PM
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No, it was just yellow.
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26-03-2007, 08:27 PM
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Would have almost certainly been a Brimstone, i've seen a few about in the past month
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27-03-2007, 07:27 AM
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Good photo- looks like his had a small accident with the right hindwing. Should be another good day today for sun loving insects (+me!) today. | | |
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