First Butterflies 2024 (1 Viewer)

[Xenospiza]

3 Red Admirals, 3 Large Tortoiseshells and 6 Brimstone this morning.
Seeing Red Admiral as the first butterfly is novel.

 

[Allen]

Pretty sure I had a Small Tortoiseshell on Sunday but it was staying high around some tree tops sunning itself. Possible? Pretty sure it wasn't a Comma but didn't have any decent bins with me.

 

[Jon Turner]

Warm sunshine here in N Devon tempted a Peacock to fly around my garden today.

 

[WalterRayle]

Brimstones and Red Admirals in my south Hants garden last week w/b 04/03 and my first
Marmalde Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on 8th March along with another local Adder, male this time.

 

[Xenospiza]

First Peacock of the year today.

 

[Owene]

Brimstones and Red Admirals in my south Hants garden last week w/b 04/03 and my first
Marmalde Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on 8th March along with another local Adder, male this time.

Hoverflies have been quite frequent this week. Lots of marmalade and tapered drone fly. Still only had one red admiral butterfly wise this year

 

[aeshna5]

Started the year well with 5 Red Admirals in Jan/Feb but nothing for about 3 weeks- been pretty little sunshine.

Today went to Dick Fock's Common for certain bird species & we had at least 10 male Brimstones, 2 Peacock, Comma & 2 Red Admirals. Though they didn't settle probably 2 or 3 Orange Underwings near the birches.

 

[Owene]

Had a distant butterfly fly through my bins view at aust wharf today. Peacock or red admiral from size and general colour tone. Not really had the sunshine at home yet. Getting impatient 😀

 

[aeshna5]

Last Saturday added my first Small Tortoiseshell on a Tree Heather.

Today at Kew Gardens 8 male & a female Brimstone, 2 Peacocks & my first Holly Blue of the season.

Plenty of bees with many Buff-tailed Bumblebees & Hairy-footed Flower Bees (interest to see a female with 2 attendant males visiting Toothwort), a couple of Common Carder Bees & singletons of Andrena clarkella & A. flavipes. hoverflies seen were a couple of Melanostoma sp, Eristalis sp & an Epistrophe eligans.

a single basking Hairy Shieldbug plus several 7-spot Ladybirds.

 

[Farnboro John]

Brimstone, Red Admiral and Peacock today. Also had what I thought was a Small Tortoiseshell but with the scatter of Large in the last few days (including two day late reporting of one at Frimley, only a couple of miles from home) I'm waiting for a proper view.

John

 

[WalterRayle]

Two Peacocks territorial fighting in the S.Hants garden and a single Comma on Weds 20/03 while I sat in the garden having lunch20/03. Also seen plenty more Brimstone this week and my first Bombus lucorum/terrestris worker.

 

[WalterRayle]

My first Speckled Wood in S. Hants today 24/03 and two each Bombus lapidarius and Bombus pascuorum queens about a month earlier than I'm used to as well as a female Andrea fulva, also a bit early and a few Bombylius major. I guess the Holly Blues will be out soon.

 

[Frank van Drogen]

First Orange Tips yesterday. I saw them while it was sunny and very pleasant outside. This was followed three hours later by the mother of all hail storms.

 

[Farnboro John]

Speckled Wood in North-East Hampshire yesterday as well as Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock and Brimstone for my best butterfly day so far this year.

John

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Still no butterflies for me so far…

 

[StuartReeves]

Orange-tip and Holly Blue in my garden yesterday.

 

[aeshna5]

Had my first Orange Tip too yesterday- a smart male. Otherwise Small Tortoiseshell, Brimstone & a few Peacocks.

 

[tonyfenn]

Saw my 1st for the year yesterday, male brimstone

 

[Xenospiza]

My first Holly Blue of the year in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

 

[Jon Turner]

5 or 6 Brimstones at various sites in East Hampshire yesterday.