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Glosbutterflyforum· Gloucestershire Butterfly Forum
Nice photos Richard - at least I've looked at them! Maybe we should ask Joff to merge this site with the moth forum? On second thoughts - he'd have to reprint...
We did a butterfly training day for Glos Wildlife Trust members on Saturday in Lower Woods. The weather was warm and sunny and we saw 14 different species....
Hi Tricia, Lovely photo! Go to "my photos" click on "add photo" browse and select your photo then click on "upload". Should do the trick. Lovely day coming up....
... very sorry to miss your butterfly walk - forgot ! but did see your valezina silver-washed on the sunday morning when emptying moth traps with peter hugo,...
On my return from the North Cotswolds where I completed my 1km square "Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey" I walked across the fields to the most remote part...
they seem to be much more common now (see photo). i have a nest in the roof space - should i get rid of them or not. i have been watching the butterflies on my...
please can anyone confirm photo identification (richards photos) are correct. also are the red things parasites ? thanks, richard. ps saw you were at daneway...
Personally, I would leave them alone unless they are really terrorising you. They all have their place in the food chain. Just remember to block up the...
Hello Richard, I've put a comment on some of your photos to aid your identification. Hope that's OK. Sorry, not me at Daneway. I haven't been there for two...
Well done Tricia! I thought Joff would pounce on your valezina photo for the home page as soon as he saw it! Drat! I shall have to go out and look for...
... peter - many thanks for your help - i assume you are talking about DSCO1183 taken in may when you refer to the brown argos. i wonder who ownes a dark green...
first time i have seen a small copper in elcombe - can anyone tell me if it is a male or female - see photo. it doesnt seem to have much of a swallow tail - as...
... That is a fantastic number of Chalkhill Blues. I will try to go to Barnsley Warren If I dont get chance to go to Coombe Hill. I was planning to go on the...
despite a dull and windy day - had an excellent pm with celia and vic plus 4 others. sighting included chalk hill blues (many) - first time i had seen one -...
... I was planning on coming but the weather forecast was not all that good. Another reason that I did not come was that I had been keeping some Small...
Butterfly Conservation may not approve of what I have done. I saw literally hundreds of Small Tortoiseshell caterpillars on a huge patch of nettles in my...
Hello Richard, yes, it was the photo you took in May and labelled "Common Blue". Re Daneway, Chris Wiltshire has a Rover 75 and has a transect at Daneway. ...
Hello Tricia, I'm in Dorset this week otherwise I would have arranged to meet up at Barnsley Warren for Chalkhill Blues. You have to know just where to go...
have finally disposed of the hornets nest in my roof-space. watching them catch and kill two torts yesterday finally made up my mind for me. regards, richard...
on 'richards photos' i have put on what i think is a large and a small white. i wonder if anyone could confirm that they are both male. the other thing is that...
Ah well, hopefully they will nest in a more suitable place next year - but beware - my brother in the forest has them returning to nest in his porch every...
... thanks for your help tricia - i will try again at crickley hill. managed to see many adonis blues today (see photo) - both on minch common and pensile road...
Apparently John Crowther saw one fresh male individual on 7 August and the same individual in roughly the same place on the 9th. By the 11th this individual...
We have been ehre for over 13yrs and I planted my garden for all the butterlies, so now am happy to spot and take digi photos of them, whenev er they land on a...
i get woodland browns daily, they arent rare are they? i have some good pics of one that posed for my camera...I was taking pics of a cricket yesterday in the...