by hoegrangequarry | Jun 24, 2025 | June 2025
Hello Everyone, After a week of soaring temperatures, it is somewhat of a relief to get back to a more traditional British Summer type of weather with some welcome rain and passing clouds creating sporadic sunny intervals. What was interesting during the last week was...
by hoegrangequarry | Jun 24, 2025 | June 2025
Hello Everyone, After a week of soaring temperatures, it is somewhat of a relief to get back to a more traditional British Summer type of weather with some welcome rain and passing clouds creating sporadic sunny intervals. What was interesting during the last week was...
by hoegrangequarry | Jun 23, 2025 | June 2025
Hello Everyone, It is not often that I get important butterfly sightings immediately after I have sent out an Update but Lucy Benniston emailed me to say that she recorded both the Marbled White and the Purple Hairstreak at Loscoe Fields site on the 16th of June 2025...
by hoegrangequarry | Jun 16, 2025 | June 2025
Hello Everyone, After a week of sunshine with temperatures in the 70’s (over 21c) it was ideal conditions for the White Letter Hairstreak to appear for the first time in the County this year with the first record coming on the 9th of June 2025 on the Disease Resistant...
by hoegrangequarry | Jun 13, 2025 | June 2025
Hello Everyone, As the weather reverts back to the ‘normal’ spell of changeable Summer conditions with welcome rain for the grasslands and flowers, it has been hardly surprising that butterfly numbers have been well down but equally surprising was the first appearance...