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Post by nomad on Mar 21, 2014 20:58:04 GMT -8
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Post by nomad on Mar 21, 2014 21:33:14 GMT -8
Early flowering Blackthorn flowers and Sallow catkins are very important nectar sources for those butterflies that have spent the long cold northern winters in hibernation.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Mar 22, 2014 7:54:37 GMT -8
Oh I doooo sooooo envy you!.... still stuck in winter mode here in central SK, CANADA... low temp of -24.4 C early this morning! We in mid-higher latitudes of N. Am. have suffered through one of the longest & coldest winters ever... getting harder & harder to find a Canadian who believes in global warming... just check our home heating bills this winter.... yikes! Usually we see our 1st b-flies of the season in late March-early April thaws... we shall see... & pray...
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Post by nomad on Mar 22, 2014 8:00:22 GMT -8
I hope the winter releases its grip on Canada soon. It has been a very mild, but very wet winter here in the U.K. I expect the Polar Bears are doing better this year.  |
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Post by o0osteve on Mar 22, 2014 9:04:49 GMT -8
I saw all the overwintering Butterfly species last week but the weather has turned cold again today and have even had hail showers. Have had some of my rapae and cardamines emerge today which was a nice sight. Going to put out Moth Trap out tonight and hopefully will have much better luck  |
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Post by miguel on Mar 22, 2014 9:08:08 GMT -8
Callophrys rubi and Callophrys avis flying now with Pseudophilotes panoptes and Celastrina argiolus,I´m waiting for Tomares ballus and Zerynthia rumina.
Miguel.
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Post by nomad on Mar 22, 2014 9:27:47 GMT -8
I saw all the overwintering Butterfly species last week but the weather has turned cold again today and have even had hail showers. Have had some of my rapae and cardamines emerge today which was a nice sight. Going to put out Moth Trap out tonight and hopefully will have much better luck Yes, it has turned cold, I would be interested to know what you catch tonight. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2014 11:42:57 GMT -8
lovely pictures Peter and most welcome, I have seen inachis io and aglais urticae but I never feel spring has really arrived untril I see a cardamines and p napi, the first of the "newly emerged" species.
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Post by nomad on Mar 22, 2014 12:34:23 GMT -8
lovely pictures Peter and most welcome, I have seen inachis io and aglais urticae but I never feel spring has really arrived untril I see a cardamines and p napi, the first of the "newly emerged" species. Thanks dunc, I have seen also seen two Vanessa atalanta, which shows how mild our winter has been. I wonder what will be the first of our non over wintering adult butterflies we will see. Mine is usually Celastrina argiolus. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2014 12:59:26 GMT -8
Up here it is always a race between napi and cardamines, argiolus is a week or so later in these northern parts.
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Post by miguel on Mar 22, 2014 13:35:57 GMT -8
C.argiolus wins here the race with P.napi and A.cardamines,cause is flying from the begginig of February, but the first butterfly of the year is always Pararge aegeria.
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Post by o0osteve on Mar 22, 2014 13:55:40 GMT -8
lovely pictures Peter and most welcome, I have seen inachis io and aglais urticae but I never feel spring has really arrived untril I see a cardamines and p napi, the first of the "newly emerged" species. Thanks dunc, I have seen also seen two Vanessa atalanta, which shows how mild our winter has been. I wonder what will be the first of our non over wintering adult butterflies we will see. Mine is usually Celastrina argiolus. Singletons of argiolus and napi have already been seen in Devon last week a month early than usual emergence date. Hoping for a good year for Butterflies........ |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2014 3:48:30 GMT -8
very poor for a cardamines last year due to the winter weather lasting up until may in Yorkshire, I am predicting a lean year for this lovely butterfly up here.
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Post by nomad on Mar 23, 2014 4:09:02 GMT -8
An A. cardamines was seen in Hants on the 16th March, but it has turned cold again. The Orange-tips here in the south are appearing much earlier.
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Post by miguel on Mar 23, 2014 4:44:07 GMT -8
The orange-tips is flying here now and Cacyreus marshali too.
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Post by nomad on Mar 26, 2014 12:06:21 GMT -8
Not very spring like in the U.K recently, it was cold today working high up in the Cotswolds, with frequent showers that contained hailstones the size of peas.  I believe many butterflies will have returned to hibernate during this cold spell. |
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Post by bobw on Mar 26, 2014 12:28:58 GMT -8
Spring is here in the U. K. at last I think you mean WAS! |
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Post by nomad on Mar 29, 2014 23:18:45 GMT -8
In Slovakia first P. machaon was seen yesterday. 14.3. Issoria lathonia was reported, 13.3. Pontia edusa, 9.3. Colias crocea!!, 8.3. Colias alfacariensis!! those Colias reports are probably new records.. A nice spring selection of butterflies from your country. The Colias records are interesting. The first P. machaon here will not appear in its fenland home before the end of May. Your report shows how much colder Britain is at its northern latitude. Its still mostly the winter hibernators that are on the wing. It was like winter here last week and summer this weekend. It goes to show how fickle the U.K's weather really is. |
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Post by nomad on Mar 30, 2014 0:46:23 GMT -8
We should also spare a thought for many of our American and Canadian friends who are still snowed in, by one of the hardest winters they have experienced, not many spring butterflies there. |
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Post by nomad on Mar 30, 2014 21:05:54 GMT -8
Due to the warm weekend, my first resident species here in the U. K. was a Pieris napi and a Celastrina argiolus at the top of a holly tree. |
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Post by nomihoudai on Mar 30, 2014 23:03:16 GMT -8
In Southern Germany everything is a month ahead too. I also saw a Pararge aegeria and many Anthocharis cardamines males this weekend.
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Post by miguel on Mar 31, 2014 10:37:03 GMT -8
For me is a surprise because I always thought that Graellsia isabelae begin their flight periode in the end of April but friday my father saw one male flying in a small town in Sierra de Segura(Jaen,Spain)
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Post by nomihoudai on Apr 6, 2014 9:05:56 GMT -8
Today I took a walk around the town that I live in in Southern Germany. The spring season has begun and my favorite spring butterfly Anthocahris cardamines is on its wing. The females are not out yet, it may take them another week or two to hatch. In this little field I could see nearly every species flying at the moment:
Celastrina argiolus
Araschnia levana
Pararge aegeria
Anthocharis caradamines
Gonepteryx rhamni
Leptidea juvernica/sinapsis
Pieris brassicae
Pieris napi
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Post by nomad on Apr 6, 2014 9:27:47 GMT -8
That's a very nice selection of spring butterflies in sunny Germany Claude. I think I would have to agree that A. cardamines is also my favourite spring species, but I have still yet to see one in wet Britain. I wish we had the little Araschnia levana with its interesting seasonal variation. Leptidea sinapsis is a rare species in the U.K and will not been seen in a few of its remaining woodland haunts till May. |
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Post by lepidofrance on Apr 6, 2014 9:44:55 GMT -8
In Southern Germany everything is a month ahead too. I also saw a Pararge aegeria and many Anthocharis cardamines males this weekend. Same in France according all reports ! Very warm weather for the season in February, March and April beginning. Yesterday in Paris, it was alike Summer ! No sun to-day but 20°C in Paris where I saw flying Inachis io.   |
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I believe many butterflies will have returned to hibernate during this cold spell.
