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Originally Posted by Kath[_2_]
(Post 989379)
In Sheffield we have had plenty of butterflies. The most for years - since those series of
very early springs, followed by terrible cold wet weather in March & April, which seemed
to wipe out most of them, especially small tortoiseshell.
Still none of those but commas, peacocks, whites, coppers... and lots os bumble bees.
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In Leeds, very slow start to butterfly season - in fact saw only two butterflies in the first two weeks of the hot weather. Now masses of whites small, with a few large and green-veined. Scattering of small tortoiseshells and peacocks. And earlier we were getting ringlets for the first time ever.
Good lot of bumblebees, partly as a result of a huge black knapweed (the form with the extra ray florets) which self seeded on the upper terrace where we have our coffee and lunch. Not only are they there in abundance, but they're very easy to capture and identify.
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