UK - late butterfly

[Chris Raper]

On 14 Dec 1998 09:09:16 -0800, NGD at WPO.NERC.AC.UK (Nick
Greatorex-Davies) wrote:

Hi Nick

>A colleague of mine saw a Peacock (Inachis io) in a ride (track) here
>in Monks Wood (National Nature Reserve) in Cambridgeshire today. 

Amazing - that is really late for Peacock - though the current run of
warm weather seems to be waking everything up again. I have seen
plenty of Queen wasps buzzing about and at the weekend there were a
few ground dwelling inverts about like the spider Pisaura mirabilis.

There seem to be quite a lot of moths too (sorry - no scientific names
- I'm at work!) - Chestnut, December Moth, Winter Moth and Scarce
Umber were all around last weekend in good numbers. All standard
species for this time of year but they seem to have been out for quite
extended periods this winter and they seem to be much commoner this
year - might be my imagination though! :-)

Best wishes,
Chris R.