Dorset's Painted Ladies

[Taffycat]

Ooh-er... ... ok, so maybe not that shocking:

DORSET is braced for an influx of butterflies according to experts.

Millions of Painted Ladies could be winging their way to the UK from southern Europe as part of the longest butterfly migration in the world.

Unusually high numbers of the orange and black butterflies have been reported amassing in southern Europe at the critical time of the year for them to spread northwards into Britain.

Full story: Dorset Echo

 

[muckshifter]

Not just Dorset, they will fly further North also ...

Don't confuse a Painted Lady with our own Small Tortoiseshell.

I always look forward to my first sightings.

 

[bootneck02]

I have seen them in Hampshire when I used to visit my ex Father-in-law who lived in a small village called Damerham, just off the New Forest a couple of miles from Fordingbridge. But have not seen any in Kent.

 

[Urmas]

Not just Dorset, they will fly further North also ...

Yup, way up here — albeit in smaller numbers.