{"id":3787,"date":"2020-04-13T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2020-05-06T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T08:08:47","slug":"3787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3787","title":{"rendered":"Comma returns to garden egg laying site for another year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I watched several peacock and small tortoiseshell butterflies making their now regular visits to the garden.\u00a0 Most are just passing through, but yesterday I noticed a comma circling around a sheltered corner containing a small, well established patch of stinging nettles currently only about one foot high.\u00a0 It alternated between settling on the nettles and then resting on a small nearby log left as deadwood habitat (photo attached).\u00a0 When the butterfly had finally left the garden I noticed it had laid several single eggs on the upper side of the leaf.\u00a0 The egg is tiny and the attached photo shows it resting against a sting spine\/hair.\u00a0 Another spine\/hair in the top left of the photo helps to give some sense of scale.\u00a0 This patch of nettles has been used by commas in the past and it is good to know it remains a suitable egg laying site for them.<\/p>\n

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comma butterfly<\/p><\/div>\n

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comma butterfly egg on nettle leaf<\/p><\/div>\n

Today a brimstone butterfly paid another fleeting visit, but a peacock stayed much longer nectaring on a flowering currant.<\/p>\n

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peacock nectaring on ribes<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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