It must be the image to characterise this summer - pond-dipping in the
rain! Fortunately it turned out to be a passing shower and 37 people enjoyed
lots of pond creatures, including efts (baby newts), water boatmen,
back-swimmers and some fearsome-jawed water beetle larvae and dragonfly larvae.
The sun came out while we led a guided walk and brought quite a number of
butterflies and bees with it. Both are suffering from the weather and all over the
country, numbers are well down on what we usually expect. However, we have seen
most of the species we would expect at this time of year on New Ferry Butterfly
Park - Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Comma, Red Admiral, Skippers and Whites. The
missing one is Painted Lady, which usually migrates up to here in June - no
doubt they all decided to stay somewhere drier.
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