We apologise for the loss of signal…

Posted by @ 11:04 am on Monday 24th August, 2009.
Categories: In the garden
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Life's been a bit full of other stuff for a while now, so the blogging has had to take a back-seat for a few weeks. I'll try to catch up over the next few days, starting now... This year has been a good one for the number of butterflies in our garden, but not so good for the range of species. So far, the list of species found is as follows:
  • Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris
  • Large White Pieris brassicae
  • Small White Pieris rapae
  • Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus
  • Painted Lady Cynthia cardui
  • Small Tortoiseshell Aglaise urticae
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Peacock Inachis io
  • Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
  • Wall Lasiommata megera
  • Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
  • Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
  • Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus
That's not a bad list for an urban garden in the Midlands, but there are a few notable absences - here's a list of species that we usually see here but which haven't put in an appearance so far this year:
  • Large Skipper Ochlodes venata
  • Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni
  • Green-veined White Pieris napi
  • Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines
  • Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas
  • Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
A few hours with the camera resulted in the following pics of some of the more obliging specimens:

EDIT: Just to let you know that Old Winter has blogged about his butterflies today at http://oldwinteramble.blogspot.com/2009/08/butterflies-july-aug-2009.html

3 Responses to “We apologise for the loss of signal…”

  1. Colonel Blimp says:

    There's some stunning pics there BG - great stuff!

  2. Hendrik says:

    Great pictures there, BG! Amusing that you and Old Winter had the same idea on the same day =)

    The flying butterfly is my favourite, great photo.

  3. BG! says:

    Cheers, folks. To be fair the camera-work was easy, the hard part was training that Gatekeeper to fly within the field of view 😉

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