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Other Nature Related Information / General Nature Discussion / Butterfly in my garden
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on: 24-Jul-10, 04:51:09 PM
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Yesterday I could take a picture of this beautiful butterfly in my garden. In English it's called a European Peacock or Peacock butterfly (Inachis io)
In Dutch we call it dagpauwoog, there is also the name peacock (pauw) in the name.
It's only living in Europe and Asia.
The base-colour of the wings is a rusty red, and at each wingtip it bears a distinctive, black, blue and yellow eye-spot.
The butterfly hibernates over winter before laying its eggs in early spring, in batches of up to 500 at a time. The caterpillars, which are shiny black with six rows of barbed spikes and a series of white dots on each segment, hatch after about a week and feed on nettles and hops.
The adult butterflies drink nectar from a wide variety of flowering plants, including buddleia, willows, dandelions, wild marjoram, danewort, hemp agrimony, and clover; they also utilize tree sap and rotten fruit.
It's nice for this butterfly that I have a lot of nettles in my garden.
This is the only one that I saw this year, I can remember that a few years ago I saw dozens of them on the buddleia.
greetings Aafke
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Member Activities / Birthdays / Re: ~~Happy Birthday Shaky~~
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on: 22-Jul-10, 08:50:04 AM
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A Happy Birthday
     
Thanks for your great site ( I still call it Shakies site)
Thanks for this great discussionboard
Thanks for everything you do for the birds and our group.
Have a nice day
Greetings Aafke
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