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Post by nomad on Mar 21, 2014 20:58:04 GMT -8
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Post by nomad on Mar 21, 2014 21:33:14 GMT -8
Early flowering Blackthorn flowers and Sallow catkins are very important nectar sources for those butterflies that have spent the long cold northern winters in hibernation.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Mar 22, 2014 7:54:37 GMT -8
Oh I doooo sooooo envy you!.... still stuck in winter mode here in central SK, CANADA... low temp of -24.4 C early this morning! We in mid-higher latitudes of N. Am. have suffered through one of the longest & coldest winters ever... getting harder & harder to find a Canadian who believes in global warming... just check our home heating bills this winter.... yikes! Usually we see our 1st b-flies of the season in late March-early April thaws... we shall see... & pray...
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Post by nomad on Mar 22, 2014 8:00:22 GMT -8
I hope the winter releases its grip on Canada soon. It has been a very mild, but very wet winter here in the U.K. I expect the Polar Bears are doing better this year.  |
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Post by o0osteve on Mar 22, 2014 9:04:49 GMT -8
I saw all the overwintering Butterfly species last week but the weather has turned cold again today and have even had hail showers. Have had some of my rapae and cardamines emerge today which was a nice sight. Going to put out Moth Trap out tonight and hopefully will have much better luck  |
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Post by miguel on Mar 22, 2014 9:08:08 GMT -8
Callophrys rubi and Callophrys avis flying now with Pseudophilotes panoptes and Celastrina argiolus,I´m waiting for Tomares ballus and Zerynthia rumina.
Miguel.
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Post by nomad on Mar 22, 2014 9:27:47 GMT -8
I saw all the overwintering Butterfly species last week but the weather has turned cold again today and have even had hail showers. Have had some of my rapae and cardamines emerge today which was a nice sight. Going to put out Moth Trap out tonight and hopefully will have much better luck Yes, it has turned cold, I would be interested to know what you catch tonight. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2014 11:42:57 GMT -8
lovely pictures Peter and most welcome, I have seen inachis io and aglais urticae but I never feel spring has really arrived untril I see a cardamines and p napi, the first of the "newly emerged" species.
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Post by nomad on Mar 22, 2014 12:34:23 GMT -8
lovely pictures Peter and most welcome, I have seen inachis io and aglais urticae but I never feel spring has really arrived untril I see a cardamines and p napi, the first of the "newly emerged" species. Thanks dunc, I have seen also seen two Vanessa atalanta, which shows how mild our winter has been. I wonder what will be the first of our non over wintering adult butterflies we will see. Mine is usually Celastrina argiolus. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2014 12:59:26 GMT -8
Up here it is always a race between napi and cardamines, argiolus is a week or so later in these northern parts.
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Post by miguel on Mar 22, 2014 13:35:57 GMT -8
C.argiolus wins here the race with P.napi and A.cardamines,cause is flying from the begginig of February, but the first butterfly of the year is always Pararge aegeria.
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Post by o0osteve on Mar 22, 2014 13:55:40 GMT -8
lovely pictures Peter and most welcome, I have seen inachis io and aglais urticae but I never feel spring has really arrived untril I see a cardamines and p napi, the first of the "newly emerged" species. Thanks dunc, I have seen also seen two Vanessa atalanta, which shows how mild our winter has been. I wonder what will be the first of our non over wintering adult butterflies we will see. Mine is usually Celastrina argiolus. Singletons of argiolus and napi have already been seen in Devon last week a month early than usual emergence date. Hoping for a good year for Butterflies........ |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2014 3:48:30 GMT -8
very poor for a cardamines last year due to the winter weather lasting up until may in Yorkshire, I am predicting a lean year for this lovely butterfly up here.
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Post by nomad on Mar 23, 2014 4:09:02 GMT -8
An A. cardamines was seen in Hants on the 16th March, but it has turned cold again. The Orange-tips here in the south are appearing much earlier.
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Post by miguel on Mar 23, 2014 4:44:07 GMT -8
The orange-tips is flying here now and Cacyreus marshali too.
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