However, they have yet to touch the Lavender and we had a couple of Small Tortoiseshells feeding on it this afternoon.

SCRABBLER wrote:With regard to the backdrop to the Ampthill Newsweek 11th August: this year, we seem to have had an explosion of butterflies of all hues and sizes.
The Whites have been in abundance, but there have been Skippers, Brimstones, Holly Blues, Red Admirals, however, as yet I have not seen a Painted Lady,
and only one Peacock. Everywhere you look this Summer they have been present in large numbers. And has anyone noticed that flies and wasps have not
been about in the numbers that they have been in past years?
Sagitar wrote:I notice clear differences of size and shades of colour in the whites but I don't really understand the significance.
SCRABBLER wrote:At noon I was sitting in my bedroom looking out of the window, Sagitar would have had a "field day" with his camera, had he been here.
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