by hoegrangequarry | Nov 3, 2022 | October 2022
Hello Everyone, With the continuation of the very mild but blustery weather conditions prevailing for yet another week here in the UK, the days where we had sunshine certainly helped to prolong the life of some species and prevented others from entering into their...
by hoegrangequarry | Oct 24, 2022 | October 2022
We may well have had some wet days during the last week but the night time temperatures have not fallen too much thereby enabling our current 12 species of butterflies to survive and continue to fly for yet another week in October :- Brimstone :-Sightings of 3...
by hoegrangequarry | Oct 19, 2022 | October 2022
As the warm and sunny weather continues, with just the odd day of rain, and with no frost as yet, it does mean that both butterflies and humans alike have taken advantage of the balmy conditions. Despite no further sightings of the Wall Brown this week, there were a...
by hoegrangequarry | Oct 12, 2022 | October 2022
Just as we thought that the flight period of the third brood Wall Brown was over in Derbyshire, a fresh male was seen yesterday (10th) in the Methodists Churchyard in Belper by Adrian & Rebecca Rochford, who are also currently preparing a wildflower meadow in the...
by hoegrangequarry | Oct 11, 2022 | October 2022
After a week of fairly changeable weather at least the day time temperatures have kept reasonably high and, with no night time frosts as yet, a reasonable number of our local butterflies have been seen on the wing in the County. In fact there have been sightings of 11...
by hoegrangequarry | Oct 5, 2022 | October 2022
First of all a big thank you to the 350 or so volunteers who carry out butterfly transects in the County – it has been another difficult year after the covid epidemic, but this time mainly due to the changing weather – who would have thought that we would have reached...
