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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: norfolklass on November 28, 2006, 13:34:15

Title: a bit late!
Post by: norfolklass on November 28, 2006, 13:34:15

I'm sitting at my desk at work and a Red Admiral butterfly has just been flapping at the window – surely it's much too late for them to still be around?!? don't they migrate somewhere warmer for the winter?

Title: Re: a bit late!
Post by: tim on November 28, 2006, 17:28:09

Or hibernate?

Title: Re: a bit late!
Post by: Emagggie on November 28, 2006, 20:32:16

Quite a few seen here in the South East. Today and previously.What a privilege. :D

Title: Re: a bit late!
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on November 29, 2006, 07:35:54

We're on the northern edge of their range here; they do attempt to hibernate, but survival this far north is rare. We get so many because immigrants from southern Europe and northern Africa raise a brood during summer.