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[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

I haven't seen a peacock in forever. How are your gardens doing for butterflies? There's some interesting stuff in the Guardian today on their decline. Not butterflies AND bees disappearing! Nooooo!

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/27/butterfly-decline-conservation-endangered-species

 

and pretty pictures:

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/24/butterfly-spotting?picture=346442489

[BarbaraJ]

i'll keep an eye out, usually lots of cabbage whites on our budlea

[Tiggy]

we had a peacock yesterday & lots of cabbage whites

[Cinnamon]

I had so many cabbage whites last week that I took fright for my cabbages & covered them in enviromesh

[Tessa the Duchess]

I have seen several Brimstone butterflies in the garden, haven't seen a Red Admiral for ages though.

 

Tessa

[jenimac]

Only cabbage whites in this neck of the woods but lots of them. Will keep a lookout for others.

[Aga n Chickens]

This weekend we didn't have many cabbage whites, but we did see a couple of commas and lots of chocolate brown butterflies with small yellow spots.

 

Last year the cabbage white caterpillars destroyed our kale, brocolli, cabbages and even stripped the leaves from the horseraddish !

 

We won't be having many butterflies back from all that caterpillar activity though because we saw plenty of evidence that the parasitic wasps had killed a large quantity before they could pupate.

 

Luckily the coloured butterflies seem to favour the stinging nettles so our brassicas might fare better this year.

 

Regards,

 

Christine

[Saronne]

two peacock, one admiral and several bumble bees seen this weekend

[Seagazer]

I've seen quite a few butterflies - no idea what they were as I'm usually found running in the opposite direction. I have a phobia about them

[Griffin]

We have a butterfly pavillion from http://www.insectlore-europe.com/ and each year we buy new caterpillars to hatch out Painted Lady butterflies. It's absolutely fascinating to see how quickly the caterpillars grow and see all their food get gobbled up We release the butterflies onto our buddleias.

 

Does anyone know where we could buy different breeds of caterpillars?

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

Have you ever been to the Amateur Entomological Society's annual show at Kempton Park in the autumn? It's chockful of insect dealers. There are always a good load of lepidopterists.

 

The next one is 17 October.

 

http://www.amentsoc.org/events/annual-exhibition.html

 

It's an amazing day out. Even for non-insect nuts. It's like a day at the zoo, only tiny, and you can take the animals home (but they're insects)

[Egluntyne]

There is a lovely Butterfly House near Sheffield, **here**. We used to visit it often when the children were little.

 

Might make a good venue for an Omlet meet.