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Here you can find all of my nature diary entries brought to you straight from the field. This shorter diary format has replaced my earlier blogs so that I can share my finds as and when they happen. If there is anything in particular that you would like to see featured here or that you would like to contribute, then please get in touch.

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Orange-tip tag along

Nick Wilson-Smith May 28, 2025

Wednesday 28th May

As I was walking through Ebchester Woods today I felt something graze the back of my neck. As I put my hand back there I realised that a male orange-tip butterfly was hitching a ride. A harbinger of spring, this captivating lepidopteran will usually lay a single egg on the underside of the leaf or stem of a cuckoo-flower. If you ever get the chance to look at one through a hand lens, take it from me you won’t regret it. Orange, elongated and reticulated. A thing of intricate beauty.

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