Butterfly in Mid November???

[pb21]

we'll its global warming. even though the models for warming predict it will get hotter in the summer, colder in the winter and more volatile all round, a mild summer and mild autumn will be attributed to the same cause.

Its climate change actually.

They had to change the name. Despite being an accurate name, the globe (i.e. the whole planet) is warming (average temperature going up), the fact that some places may get slightly cooler or more windy and not warmer, led some people to believe that this was proof that global warming was a hoax, a massive conspiracy theory dreamt up by luvvie left wing liberal elites in cohorts with the Chinese in an attempt to increase tax revenues.

Some people eh!

 

[Peter Grummit]

The honey bees which live under our eaves are still very active. If we get a wet or cold day then they hunker down, but the number of sunny or mild days we've had this autumn has kept their numbers and activity levels up. They've been here 4 years now and this is the most active they've been at this time of year.

PG

 

[Eagle Slayer]

Just seen a Red Admiral fluttering around our garden in Hove, surely this is not normal? And whilst I think about it, our apple tree still has most of it's leaves, what's going on?

Was fishing East Preston beach last sunday and had a Red Admiral land on my fishing tripod and it stayed for about an hour before flying off again

 

[Wardy's twin]

I was being facetious . Butterflies of any description at this time of year is something. That said, the two are often confused.

Except a red admiral has definite red on them.....

 

[Wardy's twin]

I did see a red admiral last December. these are more common than painted ladies (in Woodingdean) and they do appear to be more hardy than anything else.

 

[Shy Talk]

Some butterflies hibernate, rather than die, in winter. They can wake up and flutter around if it turns mild, but I don't know if they then die or re-hibernate.

 

[Two Professors]

It was "warm wet westerly winds in winter" in my geography lessons around the same time.

You must have gone to a much posher school than me!

 

[Fungus]

I've got daffodils coming up. Is it nearly Easter?

 

[Two Professors]

I've got daffodils coming up. Is it nearly Easter?

Only in Cornwall.The rest of us havn't had Christmas yet.

 

[pearl]

The honey bees which live under our eaves are still very active. If we get a wet or cold day then they hunker down, but the number of sunny or mild days we've had this autumn has kept their numbers and activity levels up. They've been here 4 years now and this is the most active they've been at this time of year.

PG

that's good to hear

 

[dangull]

Last year i saw a grass snake in Dec. Couldn't believe it

I've seen Joey Barton as well.

 

[Official Old Man]

The oak tree in our garden has still dumped its entire contents of leaves into our garden. Global warming or not, it's a mess.

 

[whitelion]

You must have gone to a much posher school than me!

It was Hove County Grammar

 

[atfc village]

16c in Brockham Surrey today ,sat on a Dumper all day in Shorts and Polo Shirt. Lots of docile Wasps about.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Just seen a Red Admiral fluttering around our garden in Hove, surely this is not normal? And whilst I think about it, our apple tree still has most of it's leaves, what's going on?

You think that's odd?

Yesterday I put a trampoline up in the garden for the kids by way of an early Christmas present and when I put the bins out at 11pm there were two foxes, a badger, a squirrel and a hedgehog going apeshit on the bloody thing.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

You think that's odd?

Yesterday I put a trampoline up in the garden for the kids by way of an early Christmas present and when I put the bins out at 11pm there were two foxes, a badger, a squirrel and a hedgehog going apeshit on the bloody thing.

 

[Bry Nylon]

You think that's odd?

Yesterday I put a trampoline up in the garden for the kids by way of an early Christmas present and when I put the bins out at 11pm there were two foxes, a badger, a squirrel and a hedgehog going apeshit on the bloody thing.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

My spring bulbs are sprouting - how do I push them back?

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

You think that's odd?

Yesterday I put a trampoline up in the garden for the kids by way of an early Christmas present and when I put the bins out at 11pm there were two foxes, a badger, a squirrel and a hedgehog going apeshit on the bloody thing.

You'll be telling me a Boxer was on the thing next..

 

[Prince Monolulu]

My spring bulbs are sprouting - how do I push them back?

Same way you deal with the old 'Farmer Giles'.