Yay! The first of the Purple Hairstreak eggs has hatched at Penryn Campus.

The tiny caterpillar will have burrowed into the opening leaf bud, before hopefully reappearing to feed externally in a few weeks time.

Hurray! My first Orange-tip of the year at Penryn Campus.

They are always a little later emerging down here, probably due to our mild winters prolonging diapause.

Transects Week Three. 41 individuals from six species. Seasons first were a Large White and five Green-Veined Whites. Others were Orange-Tips (13), Speckled Wood (9), Peacocks (11) and Brimstone (2). NatureUK Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Natural England BC Warwickshire Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterflies

A great start to the season Steven Wright💙 i hope that sunshine keeps up.

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First Holly Blue! 💙
On the forget-me-nots 💙
And a dear friend reminded me to add this and the Orange Tip 🧡 to the iRecord App for #citizenscience purposes to help Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Upper Thames BC Warwickshire

Plenty of Orange tips out Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Wolston Fields today.

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One of the Male Orange Tip #Butterflies keeps flying back to its territory in my sister Sarah's Butterfly Garden 🦋's #butterfly #garden & lands on the Garlic Mustard (one of the caterpillar foodplants) 🥚🐛🥐🦋 #learning #conservation Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Warwickshire Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Team4Nature

Only my second garden butterfly this year, and what a beauty! This Speckled Wood actually landed right by me while I was scrutinising my Philadelphus bush for insects. BC Warwickshire Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Last coppice of isolated Hawthorn and path widening Rugby Borough Council #RightForRugby 🤜🏻🤛🏾 🇺🇦 Kilsby Lane LWSite. Leaving it to the birds and deer for now but we'll be back every month keeping paths open for surveys. Lots of Elm poss. WLHairstreak. BC Warwickshire Lots of birdsong inc.Lesser Whitethroat today...

Two more butterflies are now on the wing! 🦋

The first Wall (Lasiommata megera) of 2024 was recorded in Essex on the 13 April, along with a Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) on the same date in East Sussex.

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Unmistakable Orange Tip 🧡 on my Forget-me-nots. They are so clever to angle themselves nearly invisible to camera (as tho to predator?) I don't know how people get such good photos! Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Upper Thames BC Warwickshire

A fresh Orange Tip having a breather on its caterpillar food plant Cuckoo Flower . @wkwt BC Warwickshire Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #brandonmarshsightings

Patchy #Spring cut Canal & River Trust Fenny Compton Tunnels. Left forbs,Knapweed,White Dead Nettle and Bugle and others as befits the season.The rain held off until we'd finished to,a great day with a good bunch of #volunteers . BC Warwickshire

Male Orange Tip resting up between the showers. 16/04/24
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Here's one for #butterfly spotters. Especially Tara 🦋 and John C . A roosting Orange Tip on a Colsfoot seed head. Zoom in.....BC Warwickshire

Work parties are a geat opportunity to find out more about the species that inhabit the site. Wonder what species the Geometrid moth larva is?

Today we were lucky with the weather at Fenny Compton tunnels on our Tuesday practical work party. Catching up with some path work & some sunny banks. BC Warwickshire #volunteer #conservation #butterflies #grasslands

I did three major insect surveys in 2023. One of these was Ufton Fields SSSI/LNR in Warwickshire. We recorded over1,000 insect species at this former limestone quarry, 55 with conservation statuses. You can find out more here: researchgate.net/publication/37…

The earliest of the Blue #butterflies to appear. Have you seen any yet?