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| CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE HIGHER QUALITY IMAGE Click here for detailed species information The Small White Butterfly (Pieris rapae), also known as Small Cabbage White Butterfly, occurs very commonly through out Asia, Europe and North Africa. It is also found as an introduced species in Australia, New Zealand and North America. This very worn individual is nectering on European heliotrope (Heliotropium europaeum). |
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Sunday 21 June 2015
SMALL WHITE BUTTERFLY (Pieris rapae) Tindaya, Fuerteventura, The Canary Islands, Spain
Sunday 30 December 2012
LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER Dendrocopos minor Brest, Belarus
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Saturday 29 December 2012
Friday 28 December 2012
COMMA BUTTERFLY (Polygonia c-aibum) Belarus
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Click external link here to see identification guide to Irish Butterflies The Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-aibum) is of the family Nymphalidae which is in the genus Polygonia. This common species has a widespread distribution in the temperate regions of Eurasia and North Africa. Formally absent from Ireland, it is only in recent times that it has been
added to the Irish Butterfly List. It was first reliably reported
near Portaferry, Co. Down in August 1997 and again in August 1998. There
were no further reports until 17th August 2000 when there was a fully verified record from the Raven Nature Reserve, Co. Wexford.
Proof of breeding was subsequently confirmed in that area. Over the
last ten years, it has rapidly expanded its range from southeast Co.
Wexford and has now colonised most of southern Leinster as well as
eastern Munster. The larval food plant is mainly Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica)
and the flight season is from late March to late September, split over
two generations. Having overwintered as an adult, it emerges in late
spring and then after mating, lays its eggs on the larval food plant. The 1st record for
Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork on 14th October 2019 (pers. comm. Jim Fitzharris)
might be an indication of fresh immigration from Britain or Continental
Europe. Patrick J. O'Keeffe / Raw Birds |
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