Urban Butterfly Alliance

Peacock butterfly, Aglais io #Spring #Lepidoptera #Gardening

Magnolia bursting #Spring #Gardening #Flowers

I Did not know there was a Daphne native to the uk, and growing not too far from here on the BSBI maps. Worth a try in my own the garden then

Lovely to see my first Butterfly of the year at lunch! #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

Ha! thankfully no deer to contend with here, plenty of early snails though with all the rain though

Crocus vernus ‘Pickwick’ looking promising on the patio today - saw my first Bumblebee of the year today too #Gardening #Flowers

Close-up of a vibrant orange, black, and white painted lady butterfly perched on a cluster of light purple aster flowers with bright yellow centers, surrounded by green foliage.

Good morning. Painted Lady #Butterfly on Sea Aster yesterday. Sea Aster, has gained popularity as a gourmet food, with its young, edible leaves and stems being collected. The Painted Lady is known for its flight speed, reaching speeds up to 20 miles per hour. #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin

Caterpillar of the Large White Butterfly, Pieris brassicae on Honesty leaves. I’ve been wondering what plants to add for them too! #Butterflies #WildSpaces #Gardening #NaturGarten

Caught this lovely Common Blue Butterfly egg laying on Birds-foot trefoil in my front garden a little while ago! Polyommatus icarus #Butterflies #WildSpaces #Gardening #NaturGarten

They roost in clusters like this 😀
(Sadly I’ve got none in my garden yet this year)

Highland Cattle grazing at Pegwell Country Park on Sunday

Andrena pilipes, Black Mining Bee #SolitaryBees

Black Mining Bee, Andrena pilipes (I think?) spotted at Pegwell bay yesterday #SolitaryBees

Pantaloon Bee, Dasypoda hirtipes #SolitaryBees

Always like to check Bristly Oxtongue, when i'm along the coast, just in case there's Pantaloon Bees about. Dasypoda hirtipes spotted at Pegwell nature reserve yesterday #SolitaryBees #WildFlowers

These are the cut leaf sections from a rose in my garden recently

Think it would be quite hard for an insect to get a whole leaf into a cavity like that? Or roll it up first…

Leafcutter bee?

Nice clouded yellow!

Also a huge (tree?) Wasp on this umbellifer by the pond

visit from a jersey Tiger Moth at work just now!

👀 The wings not with eating then!?

Record count of 60 Peacocks in Purbeck Bunkers ydy, but c30 were dead, eaten by bats! So they went into hibernation early and got munched! Grills have recently been put over entrances to protect the bats and this has clearly encouraged them! @malcolmhull.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

New garden visitor this year Yellow-clubbed Glasswing, Scaeva selenitica I think? Laying eggs on a Hazel plant

A pink Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) on pink flowers.

#ColourADay, #PinkMon: An Elephant Hawk-moth on red valerian.

#coloraday #moths #ukwildlife #mothmonday #nature #bugsky

These have disappeared from my area, as have the box plants…

That’s ragwort they’re on 🧐 (with echium growing very close)

Or can it change its colour as a warning?