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| Author: | Edmund Mackrill [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Painted Lady Butterfly |
Cracking, newly hatched Painted Lady Butterfly in the garden today. Anybody else getting this hatch yet? |
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| Author: | Freddy Johnson [ Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
We had two newly arrived pristine Painted Ladies in the garden yesterday (Thu) - on Buddleia (where else?) They were joined by (including) Peacock - first we've had for some time - Red Admiral and a few Small Tortoiseshells. Regards, Freddy |
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| Author: | Rick Bennett [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
1 yesterday and 5 today in my Skellingthorpe garden. Cheers. Rick |
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| Author: | Edmund Mackrill [ Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
17 in my garden today. They are hatching from Thistle patches - we watched one 'pumping up' it's wings at Gib Pt on sunday on a Thistle stem. |
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| Author: | Freddy Johnson [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
Hi Ed, Keep counting upwards and prepare for some big figures as this should turn out to be an exceptional year for the Painted Lady - a 'one-off phenomenon'. Richard Fox, a spokesman for Butterfly Conservation, has said that " by all calculations, it is possible that we could have up to a BILLION Painted Lady butterflies (in the UK) by early August." As the egg, caterpillar and chrysalis together can last less than a month, the billion will essentially be the next generation from the 'millions' that arrived in the UK in May and June. Regards, Freddy |
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| Author: | Edmund Mackrill [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
Truly amazing - I look foreward to a Painted Lady august - has it ever been this good?? |
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| Author: | Freddy Johnson [ Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
Apparently, it looks as if it could be the best Painted Lady year since the 1960s. Just playing with figures, but if Lincolnshire gets just 1% of the projected BILLION - that'll be 10 million and if the Gib Point/Skegness area gets just 1% of that total it'll be 100,000. The mind boggles.  Regards, Freddy |
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| Author: | John Walker [ Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
And i thought the hundreds( possibly a few thousands) on Saltfleetby Theddlethorpe n n r were a spectacle! cheers John |
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| Author: | Alan Ball [ Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
Quite a lot of Painted Lady butterflies and hundreds of Large Whites were coming in off the sea, during a family day out to Sutton on Sea on Saturday. There were also a lot of small spiders on web strands too - I never thought of spiders migrating ! I suspect that all of these were coming from nearby North Norfolk on a SE wind rather than across the North Sea. Painted Ladies were all fresh 2nd generation ones - except one really tatty and faded individual. Alan |
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| Author: | Freddy Johnson [ Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Painted Lady Butterfly |
The reports of Painted Lady at Messingham Sand Quarries LWTR (MSQ) on this website (Lincs Butterfly News) throughout July provide an interesting record of the VERY slow initial build-up of numbers in the first 3 weeks of the month followed by a massive increase this last week : July 1 - 1 (John T Goy) 16 - 4 (Stephen Routledge) 19 - 5 (Dave Wright) 20 - 6 (St. R) 23 - 29 (St.R) 25 - 56 (St.R) 28 - 83 (St.R). (plus-added later) : 31 - 171(St.R) Let's see what happens in August when the "projected BILLION" appear on the UK scene. Regards, Freddy |
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