Chair & Conservation Officer British Butterfly Conservation Warwickshire Branch, Volunteer Warden Ryton Wood Meadows All photos used in tweets donated by others
@DeniseSewell10 will confirm and get back to you got brain freeze Think it's Swallow-tailed Moth. Once Id please give you Post Code to Nigel so he can enter in IRecord unless you are on that
With 114 individuals the Small Skipper was by far the most numerous butterfly on this week transects. We finished just shy of last weeks total with only 498 individuals counted from 18 species. @BCWarwickshire@savebutterflies @ukbutterflies @NatureUK@NaturalEngland@WKWT
Despite seeing only one adult White-letter Hairstreak on and around the Elm in Phear park, Exmouth so far this year, I've already found 6 eggs amongst the low-hanging, sun-exposed branches. @BCDevon@ExmouthWildlife
Another successful trap overnight with 3 NYG/NFY - Elephant Hawk-moth (finally), Shoulder-striped Wainscot and Bird-cherry Ermine. Also Box-tree Moth, Silver Y and Scarce Footman with a couple of micros out for consultation B74 VC38 SK10 @BCWarwickshire@EcoRecording@ruth_newby
You don’t often see a Meadow Brown keep its wings open long enough for a photo. At 8.30 am, this female must have been warming herself up. @savebutterflies@BCWarwickshire @BC_WestMids
A species which has recently been moving northwards and looks to have finally reached Warwickshire. Amongst the catch of 2000+ individual moths of 169+ species were Kent black arches and Tree lichen beauty - 2 other northward spreading moths #mothmonday
📷 Alan Prior
Sound the first for Warwickshire siren!
Acleris umbrana is a micro moth that Alan Prior (one of our moth experts), suspects is a first county record. This individual was caught as part of a moth trapping survey near Bidford-upon-Avon on 30th June.
Here's my article from the latest issue of Butterfly @savebutterflies - I just LOVE hairstreaks, and I want more people to experience their incredible life-cycle. I hope info like this can make these beautiful and elusive butterflies more accessible for all!
A surprisingly good butterfly transect this morning at Brandon Woods . Stars of the show with 3 of each were Purple Emperor , Silver-washed Fritillary & White Admiral . @BCWarwickshire@savebutterflies . Pics Silver-washed Frit & White Admiral
A walk down to my local spot by Wagon Lane this morning before the next showers arrived produced 9 Commas, 6 Small Torts and a couple each of Red Admirals and Speckled Woods as well as Meadow Browns, Gatekeepers, Ringlets and Small/Essex Skippers @BCWarwickshire
Male Green-veined Whites imbibing minerals from wet horse manure today, + a Comma. This is more GVWs than I'd seen all brood - a big hatch of them here today (in Glos, back to Knepp tomorrow, hopefully)