Green Hairstreak, Green-veined White and Orange-tip butterflies, at Sergeantlaw, May 2023 A report on our outing to Sergeantlaw Moss has now been uploaded to our Outing Reports. We had a good turnout of people for the walk, but not of the Green Hairstreak butterflies. Typically, the weather had been very wet the day before andContinueContinue reading “Report on Green Hairstreak outing at Sergeantlaw Moss”
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December meeting with festive cheer
Our December meeting draws nigh: next Thursday 1st December. We have a change of speaker, since Jim Blackwood is unable to join us. Instead, our very own Kirsty Menzies is going to talk about Purple Hairstreak Butterflies in A Hairstreak Raising Experience Following Kirsty’s talk, we will have some Christmas cheer with mince pies and cake along withContinueContinue reading “December meeting with festive cheer”
First Large Skipper for Renfrewshire
At the last PNHS talk one of our members, Dee Murray, mentioned the unusual butterfly she spotted in her garden during the summer. Dee is interested in butterflies and records them along a local transect, but this was one she hadn’t seen before. She saw it on 29th July when finishing up a cup ofContinueContinue reading “First Large Skipper for Renfrewshire”
Latest additions to the website
Sulphur Tuft Fungus, Boden Boo, 9 October 2022 For those who missed our fungus foray at Boden Boo on Sunday 9 October, you can now read about it on the website. Read Anne Gray’s report and see some of the photographs taken on our soggy saunter around the woods. You’ll find it in Outing reportsContinueContinue reading “Latest additions to the website”
Join in the Big Butterfly Count
The Big Butterfly Count started on Friday 15th July and if you haven’t already started counting there’s plenty time as it runs until Sunday 7th August. Male Common Blue butterfly It is an annual UK-wide survey organised by Butterfly Conservation. By taking part we can help them assess the health of our environment simply by counting the amountContinueContinue reading “Join in the Big Butterfly Count”
Rare opportunity to see Purple Hairstreak butterflies close-up
Purple Hairstreak butterflies spend most of their adult phase living in the upper canopy of mature oak trees. Sometimes you can be lucky and see them close-up just after they emerge from their pupa at ground level. They settle on a twigs and shrubs to fully inflate their wings before flying high into the treetops.ContinueContinue reading “Rare opportunity to see Purple Hairstreak butterflies close-up”
Large Heath butterfly survey workshops
Want to know the difference between a Large Heath (Coenonympha tullia) and other similar species or to learn more about them and the best way to survey for them? Then take a look at the series of free workshops being run by Butterfly Conservation as part of their Large Heath Scottish survey 2022. The adultContinueContinue reading “Large Heath butterfly survey workshops”
PNHS outings for your diary
Paisley Natural History Society has some new outings planned for the coming months. Sunday 17th July – An afternoon of tree identifying with Judy Hayton at Linwood Moss Community Woodland Thursday 4th August – An evening looking for Purple Hairstreak Butterflies with Kirsty Menzies at Shaw Wood Sunday 9th October – An afternoon fungus forayingContinueContinue reading “PNHS outings for your diary”
Upcoming Butterfly Conservation events
General butterfly ID and recording / general guided walks Calderglen Country Park (7th May) Garnethill Park and Ruchill Park Glasgow (8th May)Green Hairstreak hunts: Lenzie Moss (17th May and 7th June) Green Hairstreak butterfly, Moss Mulloch, May 2018 Details on how to book onto these events can be found in the events listings on their website here.
Spring into action…for butterflies
At their Scottish Spring Gathering in March Butterfly Conservation put out a call for volunteers and suggested a number of projects people could get involved in. If you missed it you can watch the gathering on You Tube and find out about some of the butterfly and moth work being done in Scotland. Small Copper,ContinueContinue reading “Spring into action…for butterflies”
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