My three submissions

Marbled White, Buckinghamshire.
Small Blue, Warwickshire. Orange Tip, Warwickshire.

Thanks for your input Guy, much appreciated.

Thanks Roger.

Yes I can see now it looks very much like proto.. I was fixated on Pyrgus's .

Hope you and Anne are both well

Nigel.

Two images of the same individual photographed at an altitude of around 1100m near Herrera de Soria in Northern Spain

I think it's cirisi but seek confirmation from the site "experts".

I too found these to be thin on the ground. Although in June I did see and photograph my first ab of this species, a cracking female of the form " impunctata " which was found by my partner Kasia on the south side of Aston Rowant NNR in the Chilterns. A couple of trips to Yoesden Bank in J...

Chalk-hill Blue (m). Houghton Regis Quarry, Bedfordshire.
Marbled Whites (m). Bradenham, Buckinghamshire.
Orange Tip (f). Fenny Compton Tunnel, Warwickshire.

Daneway Banks. Spent a couple of days (June 30th - July 1st) in the Cotswolds with my partner Kasia Bukowska. We stayed at The Crown in Frampton Mansell and visited Daneway Banks over the two days. Arriving on site at 5.00am on the first morning we were greeted by a heavy dew, so we headed straight ...

The thread is July 2021, but it doesn't say where, so maybe I can sneak this one in. It's a Large Chequered Skipper ( Heteropterus morpheus ), that is, large in the sense that it is about 10% larger than a Chequered Skipper. NOT a UK species (which may not be much of a surprise), and quite localise...

An early morning foray around Yoesden Bank in Buckinghamshire on May 17th yielded a good number of male Adonis Blues as well as a handful of females.
Adonis Blue (m).

Adonis Blue (f).

Adonis Blue (m).

Seeing this amazing species for the first time is without doubt something I will never forget. It was June 2012 and I was in a meadow an hour North West of Madrid with Peter Withers. I was busy photographing a Mazarine Blue when Pete casually said "don't step back there's an Apollo on the thist...

David, that Chequered Blue's a stunner!! Never seen one flat open, what a cracking shot.

Firstly thank you Pete and David for your kind words. Pete, we were very lucky to have both Scarce Large Blue and Dusky Large Blue residing in a small meadow opposite Kasia's sisters house. To my horror the farmer actually cut about 60% of the meadow whilst we were there. Fortunately there were stil...

Some fantastic images posted in this thread, great idea Pete. I particularly like your Purple Edged Copper image as well as Jim's Adonis Blue and Brassy Ringlet and carcopia117's puddling Gavarnie Blues. Together with my partner Kasia (ukb member acheronita) I spent ten days in Spain at the end of J...

Hi Claire

I would be only too happy to provide images for your charity and have messaged you regarding size and where you would like the images sent to.

Kind regards
Nigel.

Thanks very much for the feedback Tony, Guy, and David.

David M wrote:Magnificent, Nigel. I'm sure such images would be perfect for Pete Eeles' new book, Life Cycles of the Butterflies of France.

That would be really something David .

During a trip to the French Alps at the end of June last year myself and my partner Kasia, ( ukb member acheronita ) came across two lycaenidae larvae being tended to by ants. The larvae were feeding on Sainfoin on the edge of a meadow in the village of Le Villars near Roubion. After doing some rese...

Thank you very much for confirming that this is indeed accretus Roger. I'm very pleased as this is a lifer for me and the only one from the trip.

Hope you're having a great time in the Pyrenees.

All the best
Nigel.

I am seeking the advice of the resident experts as to the identification of this lovely female Pyrgus that was photographed in Northern Spain last week. She was found near Herrera de Soria at an altitude of 950m and was the largest Skipper that we encountered. My own thoughts are alveus, subspecies ...

They're Yellow Dung Flies ( Scathophaga stercoraria ) David.