tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post5380585038671015998..comments2024-03-24T19:02:41.190+00:00Comments on Martin's Moths: What shall we do with the drunken sailor?MartinWainwrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383027708524885786noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post-44082433678793502852011-10-09T09:06:18.394+01:002011-10-09T09:06:18.394+01:00Hi both!
What interesting messages - v many thank...Hi both!<br /><br />What interesting messages - v many thanks. Sorry for delay in replying but P and I have been away this week. Evidence will be on the blog before long.<br /><br />It's great to compile examples of these wildlife habits and gradually build up a picture of what goes on. I never trust any suggestion that a moth or butterfly is extinct in the UK because there just aren't that many people out looking for them.<br /><br />I've seen the droppings phenomenon, Sarah, yuccky indeed; and Banished, I remember as a boy in Herefordshire watching wasps have cider parties on fallen apples which made them so tipsey that I slaughtered many, in revenge for childhood stings.<br /><br />Back in Leeds now and the weather has remembered that it's autumn; loads of rain and leaves everywhere.<br /><br />All warmest wishes; closedown approaches...<br /><br />MMartinWainwrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08383027708524885786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post-2641455742680510412011-10-03T18:44:37.874+01:002011-10-03T18:44:37.874+01:00I always found the best way to get a nice cooperat...I always found the best way to get a nice cooperative subject with Admirals and Peacocks was to wait until late in the season when the windfall fruit was nicely fermented. My old work place in Gloucester had several groups of fruit trees, apples, pears and plums that were never harvested and were so out of the way they were never disturbed. It used to smell like a distillery out there come late September and the feeding butterflies were out of their skulls.. which they clearly don't have but you get my point.<br /><br />Weather looks warmer with you right now. Its 65f here all of a sudden.Banished To A Pompous Landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141515769740567476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post-16178770971631938092011-10-02T21:27:44.894+01:002011-10-02T21:27:44.894+01:00Hi Martin, this may be indelicate, but I am so hap...Hi Martin, this may be indelicate, but I am so happy to read of the nasty food choices of moths and butterflies. I was afraid that it was something about the moths on our property upstate that made them particularly drawn to doggie's droppings! Meantime, Greg and I are on vacation on Martha's Vineyard - October is the perfect post-season time here - and we just got back from a long bike ride through the dunes where we saw numerous lovely flying things - birds, butterflies and probably moths! Love to both,<br />s and gsarah meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442276754468996416noreply@blogger.com