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	Painted Ladies and damselflies. by Stephen Savage :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Some parts of this message have been removed. Learn more about Nabble's security policy. There has been the odd one of two painted lady butterflies in our garden (Portslade Old Village) this week with a sudden influx of 14 painted lady butterflies (minimum count) on the 26^th May. They were feeding on the dog rose, hebe and red valerian. A wonderful sight! The damselflies have been emerging from our pond for a couple of weeks now. Most appear to be the large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula. On a very windy 26^th May one of the emerging damselflies got into problems and on emerging from its larval form, feel onto the side of the pond. I carefully encouraged the damselfly to grab onto a piece of grass which I stood on my desk in a glass. It was too windy to try to get it back onto the pond plant. Once the damselfly had dried out and started to fly I took it back outside and placed it on the pond plants. Anyone interested can check out the pics on my web log http://urbanwildlifejottings.blogspot.com/ Steve Savage
	Re: Painted Ladies and damselflies. by vivien-9 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Some parts of this message have been removed. Learn more about Nabble's security policy. Steve Have just looked at your wildlife jottings with interest, lucky damselfly! Whilst I have not seen a magpie take a slow worm a male blackbird did fly off with a live one from my garden last year. It was a juvenile about 200mm. long. I do not know if the blackbird managed to eat the slow worm. As the magpie is a larger, more powerful bird than a blackbird it does seem possible that it could take and eat a live slow worm. Incidentally, I saw another male blackbird trying to subdue and eat a young grass snake far larger than itself many years ago, again I don't know what the outcome was. Vivien Hodge From: adastra-bounces@... [mailto:adastra-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Stephen Savage Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:28 To: adastra@... Subject: [Adastra] Painted Ladies and damselflies. There has been the odd one of two painted lady butterflies in our garden (Portslade Old Village) this week with a sudden influx of 14 painted lady butterflies (minimum count) on the 26^th May. They were feeding on the dog rose, hebe and red valerian. A wonderful sight! The damselflies have been emerging from our pond for a couple of weeks now. Most appear to be the large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula. On a very windy 26^th May one of the emerging damselflies got into problems and on emerging from its larval form, feel onto the side of the pond. I carefully encouraged the damselfly to grab onto a piece of grass which I stood on my desk in a glass. It was too windy to try to get it back onto the pond plant. Once the damselfly had dried out and started to fly I took it back outside and placed it on the pond plants. Anyone interested can check out the pics on my web log http://urbanwildlifejottings.blogspot.com/ Steve Savage
	Re: Painted Ladies and damselflies. by Theresa Greenaway :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Some parts of this message have been removed. Learn more about Nabble's security policy. Magpies can certainly eat slow worms - I watched one despatch & eat a slow worm about 30cm long on my shed roof once. Theresa ----- Original Message ----- From: vivien@... To: adastra@... Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [Adastra] Painted Ladies and damselflies. Steve Have just looked at your wildlife jottings with interest, lucky damselfly! Whilst I have not seen a magpie take a slow worm a male blackbird did fly off with a live one from my garden last year. It was a juvenile about 200mm. long. I do not know if the blackbird managed to eat the slow worm. As the magpie is a larger, more powerful bird than a blackbird it does seem possible that it could take and eat a live slow worm. Incidentally, I saw another male blackbird trying to subdue and eat a young grass snake far larger than itself many years ago, again I don't know what the outcome was. Vivien Hodge From: adastra-bounces@... [mailto:adastra-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Stephen Savage Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:28 To: adastra@... Subject: [Adastra] Painted Ladies and damselflies. There has been the odd one of two painted lady butterflies in our garden (Portslade Old Village) this week with a sudden influx of 14 painted lady butterflies (minimum count) on the 26^th May. They were feeding on the dog rose, hebe and red valerian. A wonderful sight! The damselflies have been emerging from our pond for a couple of weeks now. Most appear to be the large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula. On a very windy 26^th May one of the emerging damselflies got into problems and on emerging from its larval form, feel onto the side of the pond. I carefully encouraged the damselfly to grab onto a piece of grass which I stood on my desk in a glass. It was too windy to try to get it back onto the pond plant. Once the damselfly had dried out and started to fly I took it back outside and placed it on the pond plants. Anyone interested can check out the pics on my web log http://urbanwildlifejottings.blogspot.com/ Steve Savage