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Butterflies Page 32
Image Taken on 09 Jun 2020
at 09:30 Image of day on 11 Jul 2020
A Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly warming in the sunshine on some
dead grass along a crop border
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Image Taken on 02 Sep 2014
at 12:15 Image of day on 13 Nov 2014
A chance single tiny purple Buddleia flower in a patch growing
through brambles by the garage attracted this pristine Small
Tortoiseshell butterfly for a feed. This insect will hibernate
for the winter and re-appear in the Spring to breed.
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Image Taken on 04 Jul 2018
at 14:51 Image of day on 21 Aug 2018
A Small Tortoiseshell butterfly decorating one of hundreds of thistles in a 20m
stretch along the side of the oil seed rape crop. We saw about 50 of mostly
Small Tortoiseshell butterflies on this stretch - more than we have seen at once
for many years.
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Image Taken on 22 Jul 2016
at 14:55 Image of day on 10 Sep 2016
Small Tortoiseshell butterflies were at one time in our hedges in hundreds, but we
now see them mainly in the 'meadow' and its surrounds in ones and twos.
But a lovely splash of colour!
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Image Taken on 14 Jun 2022
at 14:00 Image of day on 31 Jul 2022
A Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly coils up his proboscis until it completely disappears.
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Image Taken on 26 Aug 2021
at 11:15 Image of day on 07 Oct 2021
A pair of Small White Butterflies mating in the morning sunshine.
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Image Taken on 09 Jul 2018
at 15:54 Image of day on 29 Aug 2018
A pair of Small White Butterflies flew by us 'in tandem' and landed on this leaf
to continue their assignation.
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Image Taken on 03 Sep 2021
at 12:33 Image of day on 17 Oct 2021
The number of white butterflies about this year far exceeds any previous experience.
Here are two Small White Butterflies feeding from the same flower.
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Image Taken on 22 Jul 2021
at 12:35 Image of day on 01 Sep 2021
This year seems to have been exceptional for Small White Butterflies with dozens at
a time fluttering over the meadow.
Perhaps they like the farmers bean crop!
Here 4 of them spiralling upwards in the sunshine in a fluttering courtship ritual.
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Image Taken on 21 Aug 2018
at 12:50 Image of day on 09 Oct 2018
In the crop field margin we found this very tatty Small White Butterfly feeding
from what we identify as a Lesser Burdock plant.
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Ref: 20181009_df3_20180821_1250_024 small white butterfly (very tatty) on lesser burdock flower(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Sep 2015
at 09:45 Image of day on 17 Nov 2015
A few late Butterflies are gracing the plot - this one was by the side of
the main pond enjoying the nectar from a Water Mint flower.
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Image Taken on 03 Jul 2018
at 17:32 Image of day on 20 Aug 2018
Here is a Small white Butterfly enjoying a Blackberry flower. Without the cue of
scale, you can most easily tell Large and Small white butterflies apart by the
area of black at the wing tip.
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Image Taken on 09 Sep 2016
at 08:58 Image of day on 28 Oct 2016
Before 9 a.m. on a mid-September morning some warm early sunshine
brought out variety of insects into a east facing hedge.
A Small White Butterfly (that is the common species name) is tackling a Blackberry flower.
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Image Taken on 14 Sep 2022
at 14:25 Image of day on 22 Oct 2022
A Small White Butterfly feeds on a Great Willowherb flower.
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Image Taken on 27 Apr 2021
at 12:48 Image of day on 29 May 2021
A small white butterfly feeds on the Lady's smock (Cuckoo flower) that the deer have not eaten.
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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2023
at 12:09 Image of day on 23 Nov 2023
In some fitful sunshine this slightly tatty Small White butterfly sips nectar
from an equally late arrived Dandelion growing from one of the hundreds
of tons of stripped soil dumped outside our south hedge.
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Image Taken on 24 Aug 2021
at 17:37 Image of day on 07 Oct 2021
This sprig of Oxford Ragwort seems to have escaped the attention of Cinnabar
caterpillars, and this Small White butterfly is enjoying the flower's nectar.
Although the plant itself is poisonous, the flowers offer genuine poison-free offerings
to get their pollen distributed.
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Image Taken on 19 May 2023
at 13:02 Image of day on 07 Jul 2023
Another visitor to Red Campion is this Small White Butterfly.
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Ref: 20230707_d72_20230519_1302_412 small white butterfly feeding on red campion flower(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 26 Jul 2024
at 15:06 Image of day on 09 Sep 2024
A Small White Butterfly on a partially developed Teasel flower.
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Image Taken on 05 Jul 2021
at 09:59 Image of day on 18 Aug 2021
A Small White Butterfly enjoying a feed from the Privet flowers.
Make the most of them - they only flower for a few days!
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Ref: 20210818_df3_20210705_0959_031 small white butterfly female first brood on privet flowers(r+mb id@576).jpg
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