For those of you who do so, monitoring the feeds of nature lovers on social media will soon show you what an amazing spring it has been for painted lady butterflies.
Small tortoiseshells - not a sausage. Painted ladies - a who hog roast.
The library gardens nature reserve has them feeding off the meadow clary, they flutter by at sconce park, pale orange in the save sunshine we've been having, and they are all over our work campus, where dogwood seems to be their food plant of choice.
I remember a late summer pre-pandemic - gosh how that defines so many things - when we had a huge late summer migration of painted ladies and I saw a fair few around, but not as many as this.
I wonder where they have come from. Is there an El Nino connection or something else of an arcane nature?
Si
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