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@peterpeatfree.bsky.social

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🌱Gardening for 🦋 and 🐝 mainly pictures from my own garden, and the occasional road trip🐛 #WildSpaces #NaturGarten #OMSYSTEM #TG-7

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · May 24

First ever Brimstone Butterfly Caterpillar on Purging Buckthorn in my garden today! Gonepteryx rhamni Rhamnus carthartica #Lepidoptera #NaturGarten @joelashton.bsky.social

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · Aug 14

Good morning. Painted Lady #Butterfly on Sea Aster yesterday. Sea Aster, has gained popularity as a gourmet food, with its young, edible leaves and stems being collected. The Painted Lady is known for its flight speed, reaching speeds up to 20 miles per hour. #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin

Close-up of a vibrant orange, black, and white painted lady butterfly perched on a cluster of light purple aster flowers with bright yellow centers, surrounded by green foliage.

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Nicholas Galley @nickgalley.bsky.social · Aug 12

No idea of ID or what exactly is occurring.

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 11

Caterpillar of the Large White Butterfly, Pieris brassicae on Honesty leaves. I’ve been wondering what plants to add for them too! #Butterflies #WildSpaces #Gardening #NaturGarten

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 11

Caught this lovely Common Blue Butterfly egg laying on Birds-foot trefoil in my front garden a little while ago! Polyommatus icarus #Butterflies #WildSpaces #Gardening #NaturGarten

Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 5

They roost in clusters like this 😀
(Sadly I’ve got none in my garden yet this year)

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 4

Highland Cattle grazing at Pegwell Country Park on Sunday

Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 4

Andrena pilipes, Black Mining Bee #SolitaryBees

Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 4

Black Mining Bee, Andrena pilipes (I think?) spotted at Pegwell bay yesterday #SolitaryBees

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 4

Pantaloon Bee, Dasypoda hirtipes #SolitaryBees

Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 4

Always like to check Bristly Oxtongue, when i'm along the coast, just in case there's Pantaloon Bees about. Dasypoda hirtipes spotted at Pegwell nature reserve yesterday #SolitaryBees #WildFlowers

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 3

These are the cut leaf sections from a rose in my garden recently

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 3

Think it would be quite hard for an insect to get a whole leaf into a cavity like that? Or roll it up first…

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 3

Leafcutter bee?

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Aug 1

Nice clouded yellow!

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Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Jul 25

Also a huge (tree?) Wasp on this umbellifer by the pond

Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Jul 25

visit from a jersey Tiger Moth at work just now!

Urban Butterfly Alliance @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · Jul 18

👀 The wings not with eating then!?

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · Jul 18

Record count of 60 Peacocks in Purbeck Bunkers ydy, but c30 were dead, eaten by bats! So they went into hibernation early and got munched! Grills have recently been put over entrances to protect the bats and this has clearly encouraged them! @malcolmhull.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social