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Posted by tweetfan (U13984492) on Friday, 7th August 2009
on tonights episode we saw Joe making a mix of nettles and water.At this time of year the butterflies are laying many eggs on nettles and this should have been pointed out on the programme.Potentially there will now be a lot of people out there making this nettle mix and inadvertently drowning butterfly eggs.Given numbers are on the decline in the UK,butterflies need all the help they can get.
On a brighter note I am loving the new programme and enjoyed the part about the sea holly although I felt a bit sad as my husband pulled up a very large sea holly I'd had for years.He thought it was a weed earlier in the year.Did not realise what he had done until there was a large bare patch where it used to be!!Wonder if Carol's husband has ever done something similar?
Totally agree re butterflies Tweet; the same thought went thru my mind. Same with the cabbage white. I know they decimate brassicas (they've had a good go at my broccoli - got under the net) but there must be moderation in everything! Live and let live, I say. (ducks beneath parapet)
Am I to stop eating my cabbages now in case I accidently destroy cabbage white eggs? At least it gives me a reason not to make nettle tea, foul foul stuff.
There is certainly no shortage of butterflies in my garden, the other afternoon I could see 10 cabbage white and 5 other types all flying around at once !! Nan x
There were loads of butterflies about yesterday and some of them where huge.
There are also a large amount of chrysalis everywhere as well.
But we do have a lot of nettles at the moment.
, in reply to message 5.
Posted by Holly-Ivy-Mistletoe (U11766447) on Thursday, 20th August 2009
I love to see Butterflies in the garden, but we only seem to have the "whites"
I think its the unusual ones which eat the nettles, so we should try to save them
i like to see butterflys too,but we dont have many species,cabbage white,then theres a brown winged one with many spots on wings.fritility i think. but where are the tiger moths i used to see when young,and red admirels.i dont see any of these now.do they still exist i wonder?
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