Focus Nature Notes. Butterflies at last…

Last hurrah ….last week. 

Congratulations to RHS Garden Rosemoor with parts of the garden awash with bees, dragonflies, damselflies and butterflies at last …last week. Amongst the Whites are flashes of yellow, not Clouded Yellow as I thought but newly emerged Brimstone. It was a hopeful sight after the sad news about alarmingly low numbers from the Butterfly Conservation. #butterflycount. Also spotted a Peacock, 3 Red Admirals and my first and only Tortoishell of the year. Watch the clip below, enjoy a tranquil moment, I love to know what flowers are planted here.

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2. Implement an immediate and permanent ban on butterfly-harming neonicotinoid pesticides, without exceptions. 

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Seen 14th September

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Butterflies at last. Butterflies count

I was beginning to wonder if the butterflies were ever going to return. Worryingly very few in numbers over the past couple of months.

I spotted the Speckled Wood in my wildlife friendly garden at the end of May. On my walks around coast and countryside I only saw a couple Orange Tips back in the Spring and very few Whites.

Yesterday I saw a good selection including

• Red Admiral (first I’ve seen this year)
• Gatekeeper (first I’ve seen this year)
• . Skipper (first I’ve seen this year)
• Comma (first I’ve seen this year)
• Large White
• Small White

There was also a solitary Brimstone among the many Gatekeepers fluttering around the beautifully sheltered Permaculture Garden at Tapeley Park.

I do the Big Butterfly Count every year, so I’m hoping my own garden count counts for something this year. I took the stunning Speckled Wood photo in  my garden at the end of May.

 

 Butterflies at last. Photo credit Pat Adams North Devon Focus

Large White - Photo credit Pat Adams North Devon Focus

Speckled Wood - Photo credit Pat Adams North Devon Focus

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