Comments on: Old Garden Friends http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2013/07/22/old-garden-friends/ Topical information from the Suffolk Moth Group Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: tonyhopkins http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2013/07/22/old-garden-friends/#comment-343 tonyhopkins Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:56:46 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=3168#comment-343 I’m sure the season in southern Europe was late – I was getting things like the Argentine (Spatalia argentina) in early July in the same place that I saw it in May last year. I was staying in the Cevennes at the time. Local people said the weather had been cold and windy for weeks. Certainly, when we were there the nights were cool (just like at home). Things only improved when we moved to the Dordogne, where the nights were much milder. Oak hawk was in sufficient numbers to be a pest at light.
Very few clouded yellows about, and only one or two spent painted ladies. So I’m not at all surprised not to be catching any vestals etc now.

Thanks for commenting. Good to share thoughts and observations as well as sightings!

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By: Neil http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2013/07/22/old-garden-friends/#comment-341 Neil Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:17:30 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=3168#comment-341 I spent the first week of July in the Italian Dolomites for butterflies and some moths. Season running about 3 weeks behind there due to the weather in spring with not the diversity of species of Fritillaries, Blues and Browns I was expecting. Moths seen there more typical of late spring/early summer. Most out of season moth was a Water carpet – don’t think I’ll ever see one of those in July again! So with what you say about France it does look like in large parts of Europe the Lepidoptera has had a bad time. Maybe explains why there are so few migrants around.

Neil

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