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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
Forecast is cold and wet at least until middle of next week - simply can't imagine I will get any more butterflies in Lithuania this year. To the best of my memory, I have never seen a November butterfly in this country (other than hibernating individuals sleeping in caverns, etc)- Jos Stratford
- Post #118
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
One day later, as I type this, it is snowing outside, a partial white layer now coats the land, 2017 the end. ...probably.- Jos Stratford
- Post #116
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
2017 Finale! Several cloudy days, a couple of nights dropping to a chilly minus 2C, truly thought the butterfly season would be over. And so dawned 24 October, clear skies and a considerable frost, freezing point early on, rising only to a meagre 3 C by midday. However, with bright sun and blue...- Jos Stratford
- Post #115
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
19-20 October. Season Lives On. New latest records ever for me - in a brief patch of sunshine in temperatures of 13 C, my favourite set of meadows actually produced a slight upswing in the number of butterflies! All in a single hour on the 19th, one Brimstone, one Small Tortoiseshell, six Queen...- Jos Stratford
- Post #114
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
But spot what is forecast for next week ... the end is nigh!- Jos Stratford
- Post #113
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
18 October. Season Lives On! By rights, butterflies in this neck of the woods should have been over long ago, not unheard of for frosts and even a dash of early snow by now. However, spurred on by a single butterfly on the 15th, and encouraged by an unseasonably warm 15 C, I quickly nipped out...- Jos Stratford
- Post #112
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
15 October. Ha, two weeks of torrential rain and cold should have truly finished things off ...but a butterfly still flies! Small White in the briefest of sunny patches, one of my latest ever flying butterflies in Lithuania. Common Darter and Migrant Hawker too, plus a Winter Damselfly, the...- Jos Stratford
- Post #111
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
My last butterfly of the year?- Jos Stratford
- Post #110
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
2 October. The End. Patchy sun, a cold wind - returned to the splendid grasslands that had produced the impressive counts of late butterflies in preceding days. Till 11 a.m., not a single butterfly, then in weak sun and the nippy winds, a few brave butterflies appeared - a grand total of three...- Jos Stratford
- Post #109
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
Indeed it has been an excellent year, though I believe with the post below the end has finally arrived ...- Jos Stratford
- Post #108
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
Second generation is usual here - first May-early July, smaller second generation in July-August. Never been records in late-September or October to the best of my knowledge, though I also saw a single at this locality on 23-25 September this year (different individual). Late second generation...- Jos Stratford
- Post #107
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
Three unlikely October fellows ...- Jos Stratford
- Post #104
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
1 October. A distinct chill hitting the lands, nights dropping to 5C and days struggling to exceed 10 C. Hardly conducive to butterflies flying, but even in these last gasps of the season, still the limited sunny spells brought a number of butterflies - eleven species on the first day of the...- Jos Stratford
- Post #103
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
More dragonflies than butterflies, the canal at La Janda had a number, as did other localities ...no obvious stunners, but didn't really pay too much attention.- Jos Stratford
- Post #101
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
As autumn marches in to these chilly lands of the north-east, you may have thought this thread was all over, but pretty impressive September it has been, sunny days seeing plenty of butterflies flying – Green-veined and Small Whites in their hundreds, Queen of Spain Fritillaries in the dozens...- Jos Stratford
- Post #99
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
The selection ...- Jos Stratford
- Post #96
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
19 August. Tatty Ends. Some superb fresh Queen of Spain Fritillaries on the wing this day, emergences of Eastern Bath Whites, Red Admirals and large numbers of Common Blues too. In the far south, in temperatures of 32 C, still plenty of Chalkhill Blues, plus what will surely be my last...- Jos Stratford
- Post #95
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
This day's butterflies ...- Jos Stratford
- Post #94
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
12 August. One Day Heatwave. Hottest day of the year, 35 C, but a massive reduction in overall butterfly numbers. Started off at a favoured site in the southern border zone - two weeks earlier, 510 Marbled Whites at this site, 46 Meleager's Blues and many hundreds of Map Butterflies, Ringlets...- Jos Stratford
- Post #93
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
Ha ha, one of my better butterfly shots ...Purple Hairstreak, honest :)- Jos Stratford
- Post #92
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
1-7 August. As finally Lithuania experienced something akin to proper summer weather, I spent a few days trying to find the localised Arran Brown - probably too late in the season and probably not at good localities, needless to say I didn't find any! I did however find four Large Wall Browns...- Jos Stratford
- Post #91
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
29-30 July. March of the Colonists, Part Two. I had planned to go to the Tatra Mountains this weekend, I had even departed and begun the long overnight drive. An hour down the road however, with the thought of another ten hours beginning to lose its appeal, a new idea popped into my head – back...- Jos Stratford
- Post #90
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
Indeed your Silver-spotted Skipper is a different species - Epargyreus clarus. The skipper in Europe that carries the name Silver-spotted Skipper is Hesperia comma, which does occur in North America, but under the name Common Branded Skipper.- Jos Stratford
- Post #87
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
No, land use is basically unchanged in this area, at least in the last decade - abandoned meadow/low intensity use meadow. Potentially part of the answer is that the species have been going undetected earlier, but this is hard to imagine for the very visible Marbled White - even just myself I...- Jos Stratford
- Post #85
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Baltic Butterfly Challenge 2017
A few others from these days ...- Jos Stratford
- Post #82
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths