Woodland Butterflies

[Darren]

Just bought this book from Butterfly Conservation http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/product/286/Saving_Butterflies.html could be handy.

[SteveW]

I am very interested to hear from anyone who spots a White Admiral, Silver-washed Fritillary or a Purple Emperor. These three priority butterflies will be on the wing from now on and it\'s very important to find out where these important species are.

Please post your sightings on the SWOG forum or contact me at [email protected]

[SteveW]

I am very interested to hear from anyone who spots a White Admiral, Silver-washed Fritillary or a Purple Emperor. These three priority butterflies will be on the wing from now on and it\'s very important to find out where these important species are.

Please post your sightings on the SWOG forum or contact me at [email protected]

You can find details of these species here:

http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/butterfly_list/32/a_z_of_butterflies_.html

[tracy]

This weekend I saw 2 black and white butterflies in our clearing, playing in the sun on the edge of the clearing. It was too hard to see if they were White Admiral or Female purple emperor. It was windy so they didn\'t land much!

[mikepepler]

Just confirming, they were White Admirals, the photos are here: http://peplers.blogspot.com/2008/07/white-admiral-butterfly.html

Mike

[SteveW]

Well done on getting the photo of White Admirals in your wood. Superb!..and great news for Mill Wood. It\'s great to see a photo of the butterfly in flight. They are wonderful flyers. The way to tell them apart from Purple Emperors is that White Admirals command the understorey whereas Purple Emporers stay in the canopy and only swoop down briefly to feed. The White Admiral population has been in decline and is a Biodiversity Priority Species (UKBAP) so well done on encouraging them in your wood.

[Chris]

We had a white admiral butterfly in our wood last week. I think I also saw a silver washed fritillary. We have had them in past years. We also saw a purple emporor in our woodland complex a couple of years ago. Other recent sitings are speckled wood and meadow brown. The woods are in east Hampshire.

Chris W

[mikepepler]

More butterfly pictures here:

http://peplers.blogspot.com/2008/07/butterflies.html

including White Admiral, Speckled Wood, Meadow Brown and one we don\'t know...

Mike

[tracy]

Time to start spotting butterflies again! Heather has already seen a Peacock.... although I suspect all the rain and snow might be deterring them again.

[tracy]

North Wales Butterfly conservation has some great events coming up - take a look at the website

http://www.northwalesbutterflies.org.uk

Email Jan if you want to know more about butterflies or events in the area

[email protected]