Janet spends hours logging the plants, butterflies and other insects that appear. We rotationally strim our meadow and cut back hedges to create a mosaic habitat and encourage as diverse a range of insects and other wildlife as possible.
A pair of silver-washed fritillaries swooped back and forth along the hedge this afternoon. Maybe she was looking for somewhere to lay her eggs, maybe he was waiting for her to settle, maybe they were just wanting to put on a show. Seeing these large,...
Ringlets galore here today, marbled whites too and so many other insects and flowering plants to enter in my log. I do a couple of regular butterfly transect surveys for The Heart of England Forest in fields a few miles...