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Which do you prefer: Red or White wine?

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We have had an OK weekend with family visit on sunday. Timian is now at 7.9Kg in weight, up 1.1 since last Sunday.

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It seems like the rest of the summer and the butterflies are gone and the autumn is here for full. I have been working a lot and the puppy is taking its time, but we have improvements and it bring us a lot of joy.

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Next time there may be some puppy pictures.

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Today is the day!

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They promissed rain, but we have a lovely sunny day and we are all so happy for it.

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May you all have a lovely and colorful day.

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There has not been many of them this summer, but here are some close ups of the butterflies.

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Happy Friday!

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We had a lovely sunny day yesterday (at last!).

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More picture of the Brimstone can be viewed here (from last summer).

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They are back! This is my first picture of a butterfly this year!

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This is the female. The male can be seen here:

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A generation appears from mid-July to mid-September.

Eggs are laid on dried-out plant parts, for example on dry sorrel stems. The eggs are white in color and somewhat larger than those of other Lycaena species. The caterpillars are green and nocturnal and eat sorrel. Lycaena virgaureae is the only species of this genus whose eggs last over the winter. The butterflies feed on blossoms of such plants as the ground-elder, eupatorium, valeriana, and burnet saxifrage.

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source: In English wiki In Norwegian wiki In Swedish wiki

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Thanks for the response to the trouble of large/small white. I am now told that this is the small ones and the 2 last pictures is moved to this post: http://photo.dv.no/index.php/green-veined-white/941/

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The Small White (Pieris Rapae) is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the Yellows-and-Whites family Pieridae. It is also commonly known as the Small Cabbage White. The names “Cabbage Butterfly” and “Cabbage White” can also refer to the Large White.

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It is widespread across Europe, North Africa and Asia and has also been accidentally introduced to North America, Australia and New Zealand where they have become pests on cultivated cabbages and other mustard family crops.

In appearance it looks like a smaller version of the Large White. The upperside is creamy white with black tips to the forewings. Females also have two black spots in the center of the forewings. Its underwings are yellowish with black speckles. It is sometimes mistaken for a moth due to its plain-looking appearance. An adult’s wingspan is roughly 32–47 mm (1.25-2 in).

source: In English wiki In Norwegian wiki In Swedish wiki

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Yes, we are feeding them!

The Comma (Polygonia c-album) is a species of butterfly, common in the United Kingdom and with a distribution across Europe and temperate Asia to Japan and south to Morocco. Similar species are found in the United States and Canada. It has a white marking on its underwings resembling a comma. The wings have a distinctive ragged edge, apparently a cryptic form as the butterfly resembles a fallen leaf. The caterpillars are also cryptic, resembling a bird dropping.

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In the 19th century the British population of comma butterflies crashed, and by 1920 there were only two sightings. The cause for this decline is unknown, and from about 1930 the population recovered and it is now one of the more familiar butterflies in Southern England, and is now resident in Scotland and in North Wales.

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The caterpillars will feed up on hops, and they will also eat stinging nettle, elm or currant leaves, and in other parts of its distribution (e.g. in Sweden) also sallow and birch leaves.

The species survives the winter in the adult stage, and adults are of two forms. The form that overwinters before reproducing has dark undersides of the wings, whereas the form that develops directly to sexual maturation has lighter colured wing undersides. Both forms can arise from eggs laid by the same female, depending mainly on the photoperiods experienced by the larvae, but also with an influence of host plants, temperature and sex of individuals.

For våre Norske lesere er det morsomt å se at det dukker opp sommerfugler som en først trodde var utdødd.

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