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We've been away...did you miss me? Hahaha

Here's the holiday snap "slide show"

Small coppers having a good time on the golf course, sandwiches with sand eels, hawks and beeches...

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03:01 AM - May 23, 2023
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Only real difference between butterflies and all other moths is that butterflies cannot unhook their forewings from hindwings, so cannot oscillate forewings independently to help them warm up, which is pretty much why they need sunny days, whereas some moths can fly when it's freezing cold
12:35 PM - May 24, 2023
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*That's* surely the difference between moths and butterflies, a butterfly wouldn't let you pick it up would it...? I've always found them a bit skittish and they just fly off.
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06:04 PM - May 23, 2023
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But, actually, you do have a bit of a point, some moths, like the Poplar Hawk-moth are disguised as leaves and prefer to be perched innocuously during the day and will crawl on your finger and sit quietly.
03:11 AM - May 24, 2023
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Hahah, butterflies will land on you to drink your sweat! The male Emperor moth, I'd say, is far more skittish than any butterfly we have here, they're a nightmare to net. Sometimes they settle if you have got some of the pheromone lure on you.
03:10 AM - May 24, 2023
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I didn't know that!!
05:08 AM - May 24, 2023
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