June Butterflies & Moths

   

Your Challenge for June is to spot all of these butterflies & Moths!

There's a couple there I've never knowingly seen and one or two only very occasionally.

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

I've just spotted a Scarlet Tiger Moth on a Montbretia leaf.
Only another 8 to spot.

Seen a small heath today. So I still need to see the 9 on the list

   

I saw a White one of the cabbage variety - still 8 to see.

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.

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.

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.