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Butterfly ID
Topic Started: Sep 16 2008, 02:56 PM (19,473 Views)
AnnB
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Very nice Laurie, a Grayling. I don't get them here in Buckinghamshire.

My book says "as soon as it lands it shuts its wings" so you'd have had a long wait for it to bask with wings open.
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Laurie P
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Thank you for that Ann :cool2:

A Grayling is a first for me :woo:

I saw this at Hatchet Pond, Beaulieu Heath this morning whilst out photographing my landscape reflections.

I'm glad I didn't hang about waiting for it to land and open its wings then ;)
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Davebutterflyman
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Very nice indeed Laurie, superb butterfly and photo.
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JennyWren
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:clap4: very nice , Laurie . i've yet to see one . Interesting re closing it's wings , Ann :cool3:
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Davebutterflyman
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They can be quite confiding butterflies, especially when they are basking on hot, stony paths.
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celticsparrow-Jan
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Meadow Brown or Gatekeeper please,I find it hard with those two :thinking:

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Davebutterflyman
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Hi Jan.

That's a Gatekeeper. They have two small white dots in the black oval marking on the wing.
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celticsparrow-Jan
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:thanks: Dave ,there have been a few more butterflies about today :cool1:
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JennyWren
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Jan :Wave: just looking at your eryngium . I had some from Sara Raven and they're beautiful but so prickly aren't they

here's a little write up i've just found about Ellen Willmott and her ghost :)
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celticsparrow-Jan
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:wave2: Jen I have two eryngium both quite large now and they are a magnet for insects :cool1:

Jen I can't see the Ellen Wilmott ghost bit :think:
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JennyWren
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:cwl: it's a ghost Jan .... only appears now and then ;)

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/garden/601124/How-to-grow-Eryngium

Oh here it is again :)

They were a favourite of Ellen Willmott ...... a lovely story which gives the origins of Ellen Willmotts ghost :)
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Eric Hardy
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Thanks Dave for the tip on how to tell the Large from the Small White. I tried to think of a pneumonic to remember it by but haven't succeeded.
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Davebutterflyman
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I'll try and come up with one Eric....
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JennyWren
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Here's a little suggestion . If you say to yourself , '' that can hardly be called large '' . then it's a small white :bag:
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feedyourhedgehog
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Even with the charts I still feel like I need confirmation...Is this a Large White please :thinking:

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I ought to look into getting an eryngium...lovely plants :cool:
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Davebutterflyman
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Looks like a female Green-veined White, Paula.
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feedyourhedgehog
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:cwl: I'll never get the hang of them :doh:
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JennyWren
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:( nor will i ........ just been looking at Dave's links ( Audrey, earthdragon) for Ann . Which led me to read again the last newsletter re details of the last 2 meets of the year . These people are all experts and i wonder how one can join an outing if you know almost nothing compared to the others :thinking:
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Davebutterflyman
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:lol: Paula.

I think that many, if not all of these groups will welcome newcomers with little or no id knowledge, Jen. When i first started out many years ago i was a complete novice and struggled to id even the basic species but other people were more than happy to help and i would like to think that those attitudes wouldn't have changed much.
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JaySteel
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Wildlife Photographer.
Here's a caterpillar from today. It was about 40mm in length and was found on reeds at the edge of a marsh pond. Any ideas what it will turn into?


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