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16-05-2008, 05:58 PM
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| | | Re: A good year for Holly Blues?
Yes definitely a good one for HB here in N. Kent. The parastoids of them may perhaps be in a bit of a decline?
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16-05-2008, 06:05 PM
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| | | Re: A good year for Holly Blues?
Good around here as well. We've got one that spends the night in our garden, hence the close up shots I got. I've also seen them at just about all the sites I visit. 
Nothing was going to disturb that butterfly, it was set in for the night.  |
16-05-2008, 06:07 PM
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| | | Re: A good year for Holly Blues?
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Originally Posted by glsammy  Good around here as well. We've got one that spends the night in our garden, hence the close up shots I got. I've also seen them at just about all the sites I visit.
Nothing was going to disturb that butterfly, it was set in for the night. | Wow, that's just stunning.. |
16-05-2008, 06:09 PM
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| | | Re: A good year for Holly Blues?
It certainly seems to have been an exceptionally good season for Holly Blue in the London area, though numbers seemed to have tailed off this week. A couple of times I've even seen them in the high street away from any plants, which I don't recall before! |
16-05-2008, 06:11 PM
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| | | Re: A good year for Holly Blues?
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Originally Posted by mrs fish The Holly and the Ivy were good last year due to the cool/damp/wet weather ? | Has the ivy been that good? I have actually looked at ivy in various parts of the country (for different reason than holly blue) over the last few days and thought that it looked a bit scraggy. Still, if it were good last summer (seems likely) then that would have been good for that generation.
Holly doesn't really have 'bad' years, does it but I suspect that the late leafing of canopy trees this spring may have been helpful for butterflies - juicy holly and little other foliage getting in the way? |
16-05-2008, 06:13 PM
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| | | Re: A good year for Holly Blues?
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Originally Posted by mrs fish ......... but the most abundant butterfly has been Speckled Woods | Are speckled woods early this year? | | | |
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