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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 7:49:08 GMT
With the added bonus Rich of having no shelter whatsoever in my village from the Pennine weather, what they get we get, we take a real winter hammering up here most years.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 11, 2016 18:18:31 GMT
I live near the Pennines, the only things that survive our winters are polar bears I'm just south of these hills and I have to agree with Dunc, very rarely I'll see over wintered Red Admirals, our winters are too mild nowadays for them to hibernate properly, one day it can be -5 the next 12 degrees (mild and damp) bringing them back out with no food anywhere, most are probably killed off by mould and/or starvation, Duncs further north so more extreme weather up there, it's grim up north! Rich Luxureh!!! We butterflies had it tough. We had to wake up in the morning, suck the road clean with our probosces before breakfast ...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 19:38:19 GMT
Lol, if only things were that good up here, we had to do that in the middle of the night or face a good hiding.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 11, 2016 21:24:17 GMT
... and the caterpillars of today would never believe us.
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Post by albugcatcher on Oct 21, 2016 3:25:20 GMT
Love the photos Nomad, it seems that everything you photograph is in mint condition
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Post by nomad on Oct 21, 2016 6:11:52 GMT
Thank you albugcatcher. I try to photograph butterflies when they are fresh. That day in the drove, all the Red Admirals were pristine, having probably just emerged.
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Post by nomad on Oct 31, 2016 19:03:24 GMT
When the Autumn mist cleared it was a fine day on the Wilts Downs. As timmsyrj mentioned you would expect Vanessa atalanta to pop out of hibernation for to bask in the sunshine during the last day of October. Gonepteryx rhamni and Inachis io rarely seem to do so. Yet I saw a male Gonepteryx rhamni resting on a bramble leaf, but as I moved in for a photo the butterfly flew off strongly along the top of the hedge. I believe this is the latest Gonepteryx rhamni I have yet seen. There was also an Inachis io almost hiding in the grass on the open down, which when disturbed, flew uphill at speed. I see they have changed the genus name of the latter species to Aglais! Vanessa atalanta with white spot in the forewing Red Band, I am told is ab.bialbata. There were of course other insects about as well. Some Ivy clumps were buzzing with Diptera, wasps and honey bees. A Bombus bee was visiting a late flowering Field scabious (Knautia arvensis) and quite a large Ichneumon wasp that was entirely black except fora small part of the antennae was visiting Hogweed ( Heracleum sphondylium).. All images 31.10.2016. Typical Vanessa atalanta. Vanessa atalanta ab.bialbata. White spots in the Red forwing band. Inachis io. Unknown Ichneumon wasp. Feeding Bombus species.
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