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Update no 45 as at the 12th of November 2024 – including more butterfly sightings in the County
Hello Everyone, With grey concrete coloured skies across the County since the 29th of October 2024, it was a nice surprise to get sightings of the Red Admiral in Derbyshire on the 10th of November 2024 during a small period of hazy sunshine. First of all Martin Hall...
Update no 44 as at the 4th of November 2024 – including new brood Small Copper seen in the County
Hello Everyone, With sunshine being in limited amounts this last week, butterfly sightings have been somewhat lacking - despite the temperature remaining relatively high for the time of the year. This situation was typical of the Summer of 2024 when concrete coloured...
Update no 43 as at the 28th of October 2024 – including even more third brood Holly Blues seen in the County
Hello Everyone, With the temperature remaining relatively mild at around 15c here in Lowland Derbyshire, it comes as no surprise that there have been 10 species of butterflies seen during the last week in the County with yet more third brood specimens of the Holly...
Update no 42 as at the 21st of October 2024 – including third brood Holly Blue seen in the County
Hello Everyone, Despite a limited amount of sunshine in the County during the last week, it did not prevent 11 butterfly species being seen in Derbyshire including a third brood Holly Blue when Pete Clark saw a mint individual flying around an ivy plant in Ironville...
Update no 41 as at the 14th of October 2024 – including Painted Lady sightings in the County
Hello Everyone, Despite an early frost in Derby on the 11th of October 2024, there were some good sunny periods to enjoy this week and 9 butterfly species made an appearance in the County including 2 sightings of the Painted Lady both in gardens on the 7th of October...
Update no 40 as at the 7th of October 2024 -12 butterfly species already seen in the County this month
Hello Everyone, I mentioned on my last Update as to how resilient our local butterflies are and this last week proved just that as despite the heavy rain at the beginning of the month, once that yellow ball in the sky appeared, so did at least 160 butterflies in 12...