Butterfly and Moth Society
Covering Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Surrounding Areas
Butterfly and Moth Society
Covering Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Surrounding Areas
Wall on Portsdown. A walk along Portsdown Hill to check some areas for Long-tailed Blue turned up a pleasing twelve late season species but none of my target. However I did find a very fresh Wall (third brood?) which is arguably rarer than a Long-tailed Blue in this neck of the woods! A couple of Brown Hairstreak eggs, way away from where I have seen any before would seem to indicate that this once rare Hants butterfly is now fairly widespread in the area. [Posted by Mark Tutton]
Autumn butterflies in Home Wood. On a recent wander into Home Wood on my local patch, I came across four comma on one bramble bush, all within one metre of each other; but they had contrived to position themselves in such a way as to make it impossible to see them all in one photograph, which was a pity. Four speckled wood also seen in the same area. [Posted by Kevin Freeborn]
