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A butterfly in December..

  • 30-12-2006 8:46pm
    #1
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,062 ✭✭✭✭


    My dad found this little guy on the footpath when he (my dad :D ) was getting out of the car earlier today. I think it's a Peacock Butterfly who should be hibernating according to wikipedia etc.. Here's a pic of him


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  • #2
    Schlemm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Schlemm


    My mam saw squirrels recently in the park...shouldn't they be hibernating too?! Tis freakishly warm this winter no doubt


  • #3
    nando
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    I have found 6 butterflies fluttering weakly in various parts of the house this week - two of them fluttering on the floor. I don't know what to do with them so I put them at the window on the ledge. They seem very weak though.

    The red and grey squirrels we have in Ireland don't hibernate. It is freakishly warm this winter though! We're still having trouble with a few persistent wasps and some very annoying bluebottles as well.


  • #4
    trilo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 496 ✭✭trilo


    We have a red admiral living in our house, his name changes from day to day, today it's fredrick. He's been living on the wall in the bathroom and he comes to life now and again and moves to a different spot.
    I'm thinking it has to do with the weather, it was like 10 degrees today and has been and well above 4 degrees most days. Damn us and our contribution towards global warming.


  • #5
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    You can put them into match stick boxes with air holes & put them somewhere cool & release in the spring.


  • #6
    artieanna
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    yep thats a peacock butterfly and the weather has the poor guy all confused

    he should be curled up somewhere in a shed:rolleyes:
    but, no, the weather was way too tempting:p he had to go for a fly around:D

    come to think of it the weather has me a bit confused
    as well:confused::confused: ...................


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