On 08-Aug-18 10:42 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
Although it has been very warm this year there has been a real shortage
of interesting butterflies in North Yorkshire with many cabbage whites
and hardly any tortoise shells, red admirals or peacocks.

Likewise in North Wales.

I presume

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54584418@N02/29010804917

(and the next pic in the photostream)

is the product of the ubiquitous white butterfly, though it looked less
green and more hairy than the illustration in the only book I had available.

I'm surprised there was only one as I thought caterpillars usually came
in swarms. (Though I suspect that is not the correct collective noun!)

I have questions relating to the Blueberry it is eating, which I will
ask in a new thread.

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Jenny M Benson
Wrexham, UK