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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 14, 2017 19:04:21 GMT
I didn't realise that you have been there before and if you know people in the area I would definitely recommend you go to their garden, it's much less risky than trying to collect in public. I don't know whether they will have different species there to those in the Pingpo area (I should add that I have never actually been there myself, I'm just passing on what I have been told and information from specimen data).
However, it is worth bearing in mind that the best butterfly habitats in the northern hemisphere tend to be on the southern sides of the hills or mountains, and north facing slopes tend to have less species. Perhaps the place you know is not actually north facing, as it is some way from the main mountain.
Adam.
PS. Does Byasa rhadinus occur at the private garden area? Dali is really interesting for its large number of Byasa species, but also the Pazala there are worth trying to find.
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Post by mygos on Mar 15, 2017 11:20:42 GMT
Nymphalis polychloros has appeared yesterday in my garden, or presently on my house A+, Michel
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Post by wollastoni on Mar 15, 2017 17:17:41 GMT
polychloros was a myth for me as a kid.
I was looking for it every summer in August in Brittany or the French Alpes. Every year I saw only one or two and inevatibly missed them... It looked thus so rare to me !
Until one day of April, without a net, I walk into a forest near Rennes (Brittany) and saw hundreds of them. From then I understood that the best way to find polychloros in France was to look for them in April... and not during summer as I thought.
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Post by nomad on Mar 15, 2017 17:23:05 GMT
Super image Michel, if only they were still here. Splendid butterfly.
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Post by jhyatt on Mar 16, 2017 1:08:40 GMT
I've been seeing a few butterflies since Feb. 12 here in the southern Appalachians of Tennessee - P. rapae, C. philodice, and an occasional P. glaucus. Two days ago it was only 50 deg F, but P. rapae was nevertheless on the wing in the sunshine. But last night it hit 19F, and the same expected tonight. Fortunately only a few flakes of snow fell, but I imagine butterflies are finished until we get a good week or so of warmth again. It's all so depressing that we followed Leptrap's example and went for breakfast at the local Waffle House. The hash browns bowl special was superb.
jh
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Post by nomad on Apr 2, 2017 9:49:50 GMT
I saw two male Anthocharis cardamines yesterday in Wilts UK, about a month earlier than they used to start to appear. Below another Polygonia c album on the foodplant nettle.
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Post by Paul K on Apr 2, 2017 10:08:58 GMT
I like Europe, spring starts so early, in Canada one more month to see some activity. ;(
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Post by mothman27 on Apr 2, 2017 19:43:05 GMT
Here in Northern Indiana I saw the first of the year, a Vanessa atalanta on March 29. Haven't seen any since.
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Post by mygos on Apr 2, 2017 21:15:33 GMT
A few days ago in my garden, Anthocharis cardamines A+, Michel
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Post by nomad on Apr 6, 2017 16:49:21 GMT
Anthocharis cardamines is found a variety of habitats. Many years ago I used to associate the appearance of this butterfly with golden buttercup meadows, hedged with May blossom and lined with cow parsley but today they now appear at the end of March or early April when the fields margin hedges have the snowy blackthorn blossom and the short grass is dotted with celandines and dandelions. This is good evidence that our planet is indeed warming up. Today I found good numbers of these early A. cardamines, all males except for two females. There were a few early Pieris napi together with a Celastrina argiolus. The best place was a small open wood with patches of forget-me-nots and the meadow beyond with a fast-flowing stream. Anthocharis cardamines Pieris napi Male
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 6, 2017 20:18:48 GMT
Near Pavia today (Lombardy), I saw my first Iphiclides podalirius and Papilio machaon flying !
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Post by nomad on Apr 7, 2017 15:48:28 GMT
The first Pararge aegeria today, a very nervous male. Ridgeway, Wilts.
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Post by nomad on Apr 8, 2017 17:34:59 GMT
Some better images of Pararge aegeria ssp. tircis taken today in the warm Spring sunshine. A female I believe and a male with wings closed. Aglais urticae is having a very good start to the year because of the warm winter and has recovered from its serious decline a few years ago. A batch of freshly laid eggs shown here.
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 19, 2017 8:45:04 GMT
I was in Brittany (NW France) for Easter and had the pleasure to see many Anthocharis cardamines, Celastrina argiolus and Pararge aegeria. Also saw one Vanessa atalanta and a fresh Lycaena phlaeas. Good to see my Breton butterflies even if common... I got sunburnt too !
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Post by nomad on Apr 20, 2017 15:42:13 GMT
That little jewel, the Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi has just started to appear on Salisbury Plain in spite of the cold northern wind which has been a feature of April in my part of the UK. The images are of two different butterflies found yesterday. On Chalk Downland they often sit about low down.
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