Last week I heard on dutch radio that the average number of butterfly (sub-)species in summertime in a dutch garden (that's a long sentence:)) was 15.
In our garden we have two large butterfly bushes (don't know the english equivalent, thus freely translated) but I can't say we've reached 15 by far.
This one is too sharp, beautiful creature!
15 sounds a lot to me indeed. I would say like 5 or so, I dont even know of many more species.
Maybe if you count all the moths as well you might get closer to 15. Those moths you hardly see and with moths like silk moths where there is a different specie every plant the number of species increases rapidly.
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Joost Thissen
Posted 9 months ago, modified 9 months ago
I indeed find just 'comma' a bit short (I have named the picture 'white comma' to make it a bit more distinctive.)
The c-album (meaning white C) in the name refers to the clearly visible white C sign on the side of the wings.
Wow, Joost, wat is the weather like @ your place, or Ferdy's? I just left strijp-s ehv for home and the flashes are so frequent yet distant, so amazingly undutch. I don't hear any thunder and would not want to be caught in it. Yet I'd make some amazing lightning shots without any effort if I was any closer. Now in Weert I still see the flashes, sometimes several each second for many seconds. Just like the tropics;) how about that for a climate shift. Hope some of us are closer yet out of trouble and make a photo or two. Be safe, all. Signing off, going to bed.
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Class 12 of 12
Joost Thissen
Posted 9 months ago, modified 9 months ago
Indeed I can't remember having seen the flashes so frequent before.
The storm itself was short with heavy rain and strong winds.
I was not able to make a decent photo, but did record a video to show the frequent flashes. This was after the storm past by.
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In our garden we have two large butterfly bushes (don't know the english equivalent, thus freely translated) but I can't say we've reached 15 by far.
This one is too sharp, beautiful creature!
Maybe if you count all the moths as well you might get closer to 15. Those moths you hardly see and with moths like silk moths where there is a different specie every plant the number of species increases rapidly.
The c-album (meaning white C) in the name refers to the clearly visible white C sign on the side of the wings.
You can see it on Ferdy's photo:
Back home it's reasonably cool here. Had a tiny shower but no big lighting yet. I do see a red dot on buienradar moving towards me.
The storm itself was short with heavy rain and strong winds.
I was not able to make a decent photo, but did record a video to show the frequent flashes. This was after the storm past by.