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Post by wollastoni on Mar 3, 2017 8:53:20 GMT
Spring is slowly coming here in Northern Italy. When the sun is here, it is around 16°C and I saw some Aglais io and Aglais urticae in the streets of Milan.
The first Anthocharis cardamines and Pieris rapae should not be long to join the party !
I have found this winter sooooo long.
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Post by nomad on Mar 3, 2017 10:19:24 GMT
It is still cold here in England, heavy rain today, a few species have been noted in the warmer regions of Southern England, usually Cornwall but I do not expect to see the first butterflies before the end of the month. The winter seems to go on for ever up here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 10:36:45 GMT
Well as a Yorkshireman we very rarely see anything of note before the first week in april, tatty hibernated io and urticae followed by cardamines, rapae, napi and c argiolus around mid april depending on warmth of the sun in these parts, it can still be cold in june, in fact the only difference between summer and winter here some years is that the rain is warmer in summer.
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Post by Paul K on Mar 4, 2017 10:34:36 GMT
Spring arrived to Chiang Mai. Graphium nomius swinhoei
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 4, 2017 17:58:56 GMT
Paul,
Tell the truth ... summer just arrived.
We had spring for a couple of weeks in February, then the temperature went sky high as it always does in mid February, and by the end of the month even the cool nights were over.
Mind you, our winter temperatures are like (or better than) a UK summer, 25C daytime, 15C at night.
Adam.
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Post by nomad on Mar 5, 2017 9:24:41 GMT
A nice assemblage of butterflies, I thought that part of Asia had their wet and dry seasons unlike the four season western temperate regions. I believe you are relating your temperatures to the wrong end of the World.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 5, 2017 14:56:07 GMT
We have 3 seasons here, cool season from November to mid February, HOT season from then until end of April or early May (unless it's a bad year and the rains don't come until end of May) and rainy season from May to October.
Our three seasons are also split into two, as you say, wet and dry seasons, with rain between mid April and mid November, sporadic at the beginning and end but more frequent from May to September, and almost no rain at all from mid November to mid April, one or two showers a month if we are lucky. The start of the rains cools everything down from 40C+ to a pleasant 35C. Much of the time the rains are basically afternoon or evening showers, rather than all day & all night for several days, so it is still possible to find butterflies even on wet days.
In the mid 1980s I ran a butterfly farm here, and one of my employees was over 80 years old (he did things like sweeping up etc). He told me that when he was young it used to rain at least once a week in the dry season, and I have noticed that it is definitely drier now than it was then. There was massive deforestation in the period between WW2 and the mid 1970s, and I am sure that is the reason.
Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 5, 2017 15:00:43 GMT
I should add that seasons are slightly different in Bangkok and in the Thai peninsula. In fact the rainy seasons in the peninsula also differ depending on whether you are on the Andaman or Gulf of Thailand side too. Of course down there they don't really have much of a cool season either.
Adam.
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Post by nomad on Mar 9, 2017 19:12:43 GMT
Numbers of butterflies have left their hibernation in my area today. A warm Spring day but quite breezy. There were male Gonepteryx rhamni, Aglais urticae and Polygonia c-album with one Vanessa atalanta. Both Bombus and Honey Bees were busy at the Sallows and with them were the Hoverflies, Eristalis tenax . Images taken today.
Eristalis tenax, a good mimic of the above.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 20:06:56 GMT
Lovely Peter, still nothing here.
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Post by crazypapilio on Mar 9, 2017 20:13:56 GMT
I have seen Aglais urticae and Vanessa atalanta last saturday here in Eastgermany.
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Post by Paul K on Mar 10, 2017 1:36:16 GMT
I miss those days back in Europe when in early March I enjoyed those lovely butterflies. G.rhamni is indeed a beautiful sign of spring.
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Post by nomad on Mar 10, 2017 9:58:43 GMT
It certainly is a boost to the spirits seeing the lovely Brimstones searching out the as yet elusive females. The Aglais urticae and Polygonia c-album were not interested in the Sallows, they were all seen basking, usually on the ground where they were enjoying the first real rays of warm spring sunshine and often chasing each other and it was fun to watch both species, sometimes together, spiraling in dog fights high in the air. Today its overcast and no nice days are forecast for a while, so I guess its back into hibernation until then. Looking forward to seeing my first new butterfly to emerge, I wonder what it shall be. The title of this thread is Spring butterflies but I could not resist adding a few other insects, as they are all heralds of Spring.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 10:18:24 GMT
Pieris rapae and napi, anthocharis cardamines, Celastrina argiolus and Pararge aegeria are the first to show their face here, along with the hibernated species from last year, but there is nothing to see of these in my parts until 2nd week in april, if you are lucky
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Post by nomad on Mar 10, 2017 10:30:16 GMT
Yes and here, it will be one of those species you mentioned. The weather I guess is one of the joys of living in Yorkshire , although you are nearer to our northern species than us southerners, Arnside and the Lakes, now they are good places to visit. Plus you have tullia nearby.
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