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IN OUR GARDENS 2025

pjmburns said:
According to an acquaintance who is a butterfly expert - conditions have led to a bumper year.
Lot of these around (this one is on the field opposite but they are in gardens as well).
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Called "gatekeepers"

We have "small whites" as well
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Yes Janice, I've seen these around. Might be my imagination, but they seem quite 'friendly' in the sense they hang around rather than fly off quickly when they sense movement.
 
devonjim said:
With the warm, no hot weather there has been a marked increase of butterflies, some I recognise, these include comma, red admiral, cabbage white, peacock, tortoiseshell, humming bird moth, and some brown ones.
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After the above I saw a small blue butterfly so looked it up, what a bag of worms so to speak, I hadn't realised that nearly half of the "blues" that you see are in fact Brown as most female blues are brown.
 
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I can't remember so many bee as we've had this year swarming over our lavender hedge, and also which isn't so good, a 'box' moth which has wreaked havoc on our box hedge.
 
Astoness said:
in that case jan i am not sure as i thought all white ones were cabbage whites :D :D

lyn
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Apparently "Cabbage White" is a common name for 2 different species of white butterfly. They often lay eggs on cabbages hence the name lol
They are the Large and Small White. Distinguished by size and markings. However, most of us would not really know the difference.
There are also several other "white" butterflies (some more cream in colour)
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I think only experts can tell them apart when they are flitting around.
 
Trebor said:
This is my garden, no lawn but fourteen trees and still a lot of work and a small summerhouse to sit and have a cup of tea.
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Friend has a garden like yours, she boards dogs, so she washes it down but the garden is beautiful with trees and flowering shrubs a lily pond with frogs and a little rivulet that wanders round the perimeter with little bridges.
 
pjmburns said:
Apparently "Cabbage White" is a common name for 2 different species of white butterfly. They often lay eggs on cabbages hence the name lol
They are the Large and Small White. Distinguished by size and markings. However, most of us would not really know the difference.
There are also several other "white" butterflies (some more cream in colour)
.
I think only experts can tell them apart when they are flitting around.
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I heard of a green veined white, been reading about white and cream moths too and some have like dangly bits other wings. When I water in the evening I disturb them and butterflies.
 
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