I don't know if its weather related, but walking through our garden is
like being in a Walt Disney cartoon today. Ok, no bunny rabbits or deer,
but the butterflies are so numerous, they are lifting in clouds as I
walk past. They are mainly interested in the fallen plums, but nearly
everywhere I look there are a good number to be seen. We've been here a
few years, and I've never seen quite so many together, even on the
buddleia.
Brilliant warm sunshine, and very little cloud - quite breezy.
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Anita Evans
North Cumbria
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:03:19 +0100, Anita Evans
wrote:


I don't know if its weather related, but walking through our garden is
like being in a Walt Disney cartoon today. Ok, no bunny rabbits or deer,
but the butterflies are so numerous, they are lifting in clouds as I
walk past. They are mainly interested in the fallen plums, but nearly
everywhere I look there are a good number to be seen. We've been here a
few years, and I've never seen quite so many together, even on the
buddleia.
Brilliant warm sunshine, and very little cloud - quite breezy.
--
Anita Evans
North Cumbria
(anita[at]ra.evans.clara.co.uk to reply by e-mail)

This year seems to have produced an inordinate amount of Red Admirals
even here in Glasgow .
Perhaps if this warmer summer weather trend continues we will see a
return of even more species----------wonderful.
Elma in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:03:19 +0100, Anita Evans
wrote:

This year seems to have produced an inordinate amount of Red Admirals
even here in Glasgow .
Perhaps if this warmer summer weather trend continues we will see a
return of even more species----------wonderful.
Elma in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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here in south Cumbria we have had more butterflies but not an inordinate
amount

Jim Webster

This year seems to have produced an inordinate amount of Red Admirals
even here in Glasgow .
Perhaps if this warmer summer weather trend continues we will see a
return of even more species----------wonderful.
Elma in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Painted Ladies doing well too...

Richard Webb

I am a butterfly enthusiast and user of an e-mail group dedicated to
butterflies and moths.

The general consensus is that 2003 has been an exceptional year for most
species of butterfly.

Red Admirals, although some now manage to survive our warmer winters, and in
reality annual immigrants from further south. With our hot summer, they
have indeed been able to breed here (from immigrants that arrived in early
summer) and are in exceptional numbers at present. Painted Ladies (a close
relative of the Red Admiral with a similar lifestyle) were also in
exceptional number a few weeks ago, and at present they are in the immature
stages and the next generation of butterflies should be seen in ever
increasing numbers again - that is until we get frost. However, many will
have made the return migration towards the Mediterranean.

Jack