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| Author: | John Walker [ Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Theddlethorpe |
18 08 12, my garden buddliea hedge c 18m by 2 m high has had few butterflies over the past 2 weeks of flowering, todays a large hatch of peacocks with 54 counted on the bushes, also red ad 3, small tort 4, green viened white 4, large white 2 (29oc by 1300 hrs). regards John. |
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| Author: | Freddy Johnson [ Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Theddlethorpe |
John, I had hoped on Monday last,13 August (re 'Butterflies return to BBH garden'), when you said in a 'normal' year you'd have at least 40 Peacocks (but only had 1), that some sunshine should encourage an emergence......but 54.....now, that really is a "pullulating abundance".   Freddy |
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| Author: | John Walker [ Sun Aug 19, 2012 2:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Theddlethorpe |
Freddy even more today at 1300 hrs with 71 peacocks 5 small torts 3 red ads, a few whites, shows how valuable some patches of stinging nettles which i leave near the buddlieas are. regards John. |
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| Author: | Peter Roworth [ Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Theddlethorpe |
I had similar counts to John in the Sea View area on the 18th. Peacocks suddenly on the wing and had 60+ on buddliea in garden and adjacent blackberry bushes on the NNR. Also 3 small tortoiseshells 2 red admirals, few large whites and one fine looking painted lady. Peter |
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| Author: | Dean Eades [ Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Theddlethorpe |
painted lady in my garden this afternoon, |
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| Author: | John Walker [ Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Theddlethorpe |
25th aug, Garden buddlieas, 68 peacocks, 2 commas, 3 small torts, 2 red ads, 1 large white, 1 speckled wood, regards John. |
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| Author: | Freddy Johnson [ Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Theddlethorpe |
What would we Butterfly enthusiasts do without our Buddleia in the summer - it certainly makes scents to have a few in the garden.  Interestingly, it was only many years after his death that the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662-1715 - a botanist and rector in Essex) had the genus of flowering plants named in his honour by Linnaeus. Freddy |
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