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07-06-2024, 10:27 PM
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Your Challenge for June is to spot all of these butterflies & Moths!
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There's a couple there I've never knowingly seen and one or two only very occasionally.
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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
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I've just spotted a Scarlet Tiger Moth on a Montbretia leaf.
Only another 8 to spot.
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09-06-2024, 08:45 PM
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Seen a small heath today. So I still need to see the 9 on the list
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I saw a White one of the cabbage variety - still 8 to see.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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