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johnralphcarpenter

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #375 on: June 16, 2015, 08:17:01 PM »
Lots of pollinators around at present.
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Ralph Carpenter near Ashford, Kent, UK. USDA Zone 8 (9 in a good year)

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #376 on: June 17, 2015, 08:57:30 PM »
A most uncooperative butterfly today at the Truro Rock Garden.  After 15 minutes I finally caught him in the act, in the middle of a roadway.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #377 on: June 18, 2015, 08:27:02 AM »
Worth waiting for, John. A lovely image of a Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus).
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #378 on: June 18, 2015, 12:55:41 PM »
I don't think Papilio rutulus is found in Nova Scotia? More likely to be P. canadensis.
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #379 on: June 18, 2015, 01:13:25 PM »
I'm sure you are right, Anthony. It's easy to forget how large the north American continent is, with distinct species from west to east rather than geographical races.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #380 on: June 19, 2015, 10:05:32 AM »
Alas, swallowtails is one group that is totally unrepresented in New Zealand. They are introducing the Japanese white admiral to combat honeysuckle. They could be justified introducing a swallowtail to tackle fennel, which is everywhere.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #381 on: June 20, 2015, 12:47:36 PM »
Quote from: latestart on June 10, 2015, 12:30:37 PM
Wren 999 emergency. Photos taken while rescuing two wrens 9.6.15

Why use gloves?
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When the swifts arrive empty the green house

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #382 on: June 22, 2015, 09:04:59 AM »
No reason except that I prefer to use gloves when gardening. Maybe it helped calm the birds because the gloves are soft. I did have to take the glove off the hand using the scissors. It was easier to pick the thread off by hand without a glove.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #383 on: June 23, 2015, 05:11:13 PM »
The linden trees in front of the house are grey with lichens.  Our air must be reasonably clean.

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #384 on: June 23, 2015, 09:57:25 PM »
Moths and a centipede (hope this is correct)

Smerinthus ocellatus
Spilosoma lubricipeda

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #385 on: June 23, 2015, 10:00:27 PM »
Local birds that visit the garden.

Passer domesticus

Accipiter nisus
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #386 on: June 23, 2015, 10:02:00 PM »
And a bug.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #387 on: June 25, 2015, 10:09:01 PM »
Somebody is trying to hide from me.

Angie  :)
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #388 on: June 25, 2015, 10:12:22 PM »

Can't imagine anyone trying to hide from you, Angela.  Has he got the rest of his family around as well?  Cute little fella.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #389 on: June 26, 2015, 08:26:22 AM »
Yes, Maggi there are two cubs and I think mum. We have so many foxes around and I am pleased to say no rabbits. When we got the fields in front of us we stopped the people shooting as we felt they only wanted the deer and the foxes and rabbits weren't really their target. Don't know if it is the foxes that have got the rabbit numbers down but just happy to see them disappear. Deer population up though.

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Angie T.
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