From: graeme <graeme@wananchi.com>
Date: 2007-02-22 11:24
Subject: Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] Belenois spp. the 'Caper Whites'
Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] Belenois spp. the 'Caper
Whites'
I noted in my diary "millions" (I didn't actually make
any sort of estimate) of whites migrating on 10 Feb on my plot in
Langata, 1780 m asl, and this migration has continued till yesterday.
On 20 Feb I particularly noted lots stopping to feed (?) on small
flowers in the grass lawn of a friend's house in another part of
Langata. I had also seen some alighting on tall grass stems on my own
plot before. The direction of movement I would have put as SE. I've
seen lots of butterfly migrations in >40 yr in Kenya but never as
many as this! Very few today (by 11:20, sunny all morning).
Graeme Backhurst
At 9:38 pm +0300 21.02.2007, James Alan Wolstencroft wrote:
Hi there Neil & Liz,
Could anyone on the TZ or Kenya bird group who noted
anything at all (electronically,
on paper, or just mentally) about the recent
Brown-veined White butterfly
southward movement send those details to me; and I
will forward them to Torben Larsen et
al.
AND NOT via Nobby Cordeiro please as suggested
previously.
Thanks a lot,
James
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