by hoegrangequarry | Jan 11, 2023 | January 2023
Despite a relatively mild start to 2023 with the odd day of bright sunshine, there has been only 1 outdoor butterfly sighting in the County so far this year – Chris Thirtle saw a Small Tortoiseshell flying across his Great Longstone garden on the 7th of January 2023....
by hoegrangequarry | Jan 11, 2023 | January 2023
As soon as the mini freeze finished in late December 2022, a sunny day on the 20th of the month brought some hardy butterflies out of hibernation and a late Peacock was seen flying at South Wingfield (Eric Easom) together with a Red Admiral which was seen sunning...
by hoegrangequarry | Dec 19, 2022 | December 2022
At last the end of the latest mini freeze is nearly upon us with milder Atlantic weather due later this weekend – mind you we have been very lucky here in Derby with barely a few grains of snow all week but the night temperature fell to minus 8c on a couple of nights...
by hoegrangequarry | Dec 9, 2022 | December 2022
Thanks very much to those recorders who responded to my request in the last Update regarding information on the distribution of the Monarch butterfly in Europe – individuals have been noted in November 2022 in Madeira (Jane Rogers), on the Algarve in Portugal (Ben...
by hoegrangequarry | Dec 5, 2022 | December 2022
A really warm month of November meant that butterfly sightings have been made in the County up to and including Black Friday, the 25th of November 2022 but a change of month looks likely to be yet another change in the weather pattern with a blast from the Arctic on...
