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Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:54 pm
by Nature's Babe
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:25 pm
by alan refail
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:32 pm
by Nature's Babe
Yes very strange, the one in the channel could be on one of the Channel Islands, great places for wild life.
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:26 pm
by peter
Alan, the North Sea ones will be oil, gas, or wind installations.
Could the Atlantic one be Rockall?
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:00 am
by alan refail
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:25 pm
by Mike Vogel
The onein the sea will be the Red Admiral, of course.
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:31 pm
by peter
Ahoy there sailorboy, I commodore you to not try and gull him, he'll leave no stone un-terned to wrack his HMS Revenge.
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:50 pm
by Nature's Babe
The other one in the sea is doing the butterfly stroke.
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:42 pm
by Nature's Babe
back to butterflies - I had an update to say that peacock butterflies are down by a third this year, is it the wet weather?
http://dmtrk.net/DGT-HEQW-462MW1DG3B/cr.aspx
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:53 pm
by Parsons Jack
Absolutely loads of Peacock butterflies on our allotment site this morning
Those and a few Red Admirals.
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:06 pm
by Geoff
It's not only Big Butterfly Count that goes in for creative mapping.
http://www.potato.org.uk/department/kno ... dlet_id=88
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:14 pm
by Nature's Babe
Hi Geoff, ROTFL... with the two eyes at the top it looks like some demented creature that cut itself shaving
PJ That could be because the reserve has co opted farmers around there to plant more willdflowers in preparation for the reintroduction of the short haired bumble bee from australia, perhaps that is also helping the butterflies.
Did you register them? Careful now don't park them in the sea, giggles.
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:47 pm
by Parsons Jack
Hi NB,
We also have a wildlife garden and pond on the allotment site which helps
I have added the count to the BBC
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:01 pm
by Nature's Babe
Does it help with the slug problem having a pond PJ ?
Re: Big Butterfly Count
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:13 pm
by Parsons Jack
Nature's Babe wrote:Does it help with the slug problem having a pond PJ ?
Not noticeably NB.