Butterflies Galore!

[MagpieDi]

Really pleased to have lots visiting the garden over the last few days.  ;D  Just waiting for the peacocks to arrive.



Gatekeeper




Tortoiseshell




Red Admiral




Large Cabbage White

[MagpieDi]

[Roy Bham UK]

>:( Don't like that last one >:( not sure about the others really are they lottie peeps friends, or should we squish em? ;D

How do you get them to pose for you? reason I ask is that my grandson likes creepy crawlies so I bought a net and said see how many white butterfly's you can catch (just thinking of my cabbages) and he got only two >:(

[MagpieDi]

ROY !!  :o   Don't you dare squish 'em !!  They're ALL beautiful !  ;D   Just let the cabbage whites do their thing, then your grandson can have hours and hours of fun picking off the caterpillars!!   ;)   ;D 

[Carol]

Now they are magnificent pictures.  I have never seen the first one before or is it a real close up of a small one?? 
You will get me going again, where is my camera.
:D :D :D :D :D

[MagpieDi]

 :D   ;D  Carol ! 
It is a small one, you might know it as a Hedge Brown maybe Carol. I've cropped all the pics to enhance the beautiful markings.   ;)   ;D

[GREENWIZARD]

i'm lovin' all these pics of butterflies ;D ;D
impressive pics MD :) :)

[wardy]

Roy   Don't squish!  I don't know how anyone could  :o   

I grow nastirtiums in thickish rows away from brassicas to divert the cabbage whites.  The nastirtiums get covered in caterpillars and hopefully the brassicas don't  :)

[Icyberjunkie]

I mirror everyone else magpie.  These are brilliant pics - love the one on the buddelhia, budellia, oh eck...the butterfly bush!   Just wish we had some decent butterflies.  Haven't seen a peacock, red admiral or anything much except the cabbage whites this year  :(

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've had Peacock, Red Admiral, Common Blue, Orange Tip (always lots of them), Hedge Brown, Comma and the inevitable Cabbage Whites, all on the site a mile from the centre of Birmingham. Ina good year, andif Ilook harder, there are others around. There arenever somany as there were around when I was a kid though.

[Marianne]

Hiya Di,

I would like to agree with everyone else - butterflies in the garden are wonderful and bring it to life !  ;D ;D

[montanum]

It's nice to see someone has got some butterfly's, Its been a poor year here in North Wales.
                                     Montanum.

[Gardengirl]

Same here.  Hardly seen any - only the dreaded CW's which I think have been laying all over my cleomes - I have been picking off loads of tiny caterpillars which have been steadily munching their way through the leaves - Grrrrrrrrrrrr >:( >:(

Lovely photos though BTW Di :)

[GREENWIZARD]

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