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June Butterflies & Moths - Veggie - 07-06-2024
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Your Challenge for June is to spot all of these butterflies & Moths!
RE: June Butterflies & Moths - JJB - 07-06-2024
There's a couple there I've never knowingly seen and one or two only very occasionally.
RE: June Butterflies & Moths - Small chilli - 08-06-2024
Adonis blue, scarlet tiger, marble white. Never going to happen up here.
Elephant hawk moth. Very unlikely
Painted lady, brimstone moth, large emerald. There is a chance.
Peacock, small tortoiseshell. Very likely
RE: June Butterflies & Moths - Veggie - 08-06-2024
I've just spotted a Scarlet Tiger Moth on a Montbretia leaf.
Only another 8 to spot.
RE: June Butterflies & Moths - Small chilli - 09-06-2024
Seen a small heath today. So I still need to see the 9 on the list
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RE: June Butterflies & Moths - Veggie - 09-06-2024
I saw a White one of the cabbage variety - still 8 to see.
RE: June Butterflies & Moths - Small chilli - 01-07-2024
So June was an epic failure. Didn’t see anything on the list. And very little of anything in the butterfly & moth world. Very sad and a little scary. To go through June without seeing a butterfly.
RE: June Butterflies & Moths - Veggie - 01-07-2024
Lots of Scarlet Tiger Moths here - they seem to be everywhere. Even found one in a spider web in the GH. They've been back on the shed door again too.
Seen a few brown ones but not sure what they are as they're too fast for me.
RE: June Butterflies & Moths - JJB - 01-07-2024
A couple of times in the hot spell I was buzzed rather enthusiastically by a European hornet. I had to look it up. It was massive. The first time I came across him was in the shed. I thought he was a wasp looking to nest so caught him in a plastic bottle. He wasn't too impressed and skidaddled smartish when I released him. Second time he/she was taking far too much interest in me personally so had to waft him/her away with a large gravel tray. Not seen them in the cooler weather though thank goodness.