Butterflies etc.

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Leonard Poxon
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Butterflies etc.

Post by Leonard Poxon »

Sightings from my garden and a small portion of the former landfill site at tea time included:

3 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Large White, 20+ Meadow Brown, 2 Small Skipper, 1 Large Skipper and 3 Ringlet also hundreds (perhaps thousands) of Burnet Moths.

Flora included 50-100 Common Spotted Orchid and several Marsh Orchids or Marsh Orchid/ Common Spotted Orchid hybrids.
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Post by DavidM »

You wouldn't happen to know what type of Burnet moth Len ? Best guess will do perhaps. I can record them on an ODS dbase I'm keeping but not MM
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Re: Butterflies etc.

Post by DavidM »

Got it on your later sighting report
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