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Tuesday 31 May 2016
Burnet Companion
I took this photo of a Burnet Companion on my patch at Norchard yesterday. I assume the green abdominal appendage is the pheremone gland. Not seen that before.
Also a large fall of Diamond-back moths here today. They appear to have come via the East and all seem very pale, as though they have travelled a long way. Flushed around ten in my garden.
Did you watch the Burnet Companion for long? I just wondered whether it might be ovipositing?
ReplyDeleteIt may have been Patrick, it did not stay still for very long. It was the only one present, plus a solitary female Common Blue butterfly.
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