European Gardening: Male Gatekeeper, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
The blue one is, it's got a lot bigger this year. I have a pink just starting to burst, bought these with no name years ago as a package. I have a Royal Red half open and Black Knight and Harlequin which is mostly gone green still to come. The Royal red and Black Knight are a bit smothered and have grown tall but not developed well.

There are lots of the Gatekeepers around, I haven't seen the Brimstone again and thought I'd got a pic of it on the Delosperma but not so. Lots of Small Whites and some Large Whites, I saw I one laying eggs on a cauliflower plant, a small one at the end but I only had 5 plants so I feel like leaving them, they are butterflies. They're Mayflower sown late. I don't have room for many greens, but sowed some late cauli seed to go in after new spuds.

I have another one I couldn't match in the book, I looked at the Butterflies and Hummers forum and a link was put on a thread for butterflies in a certain area, a few hundred, it was there and is a Common Ringlet.

There was a Peacock on the blue buddleja today, very dark backs but I got some later of the tops, not downloaded yet, but it's colour is darker than the ones last year, I had 3 that I knew of and they were different to each other but not this dark.

I got stung on the back of my arm the other day, wasp I think, if you have chilli pepper and rub the inside of that on it stops the sting. I have nearly one full dried one left of Georgia Flame from last year, it's good for eczema, stings, and I use it on my glands on my head when they get bitten or too swollen and watery, it does the job. Awaiting the next crop of peppers!

This is the Common Ringlet, which I thought might be a Small Heath but the other matches better, not certain about the tops of wings, and as it's not in the Collins guide perhaps not here either!