Thanks Vince. My other photo from a different angle shows the second dorsal hump. Greatly appreciated Regards Kev

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Spotted this freshly formed Pupa today on a Knapweed. I’m thinking Small or Green Veined White but not sure. Any confirmation welcome. Regards Kev

The nice thing about your diary is that we are still enjoying Dukes in late June. Cracking shots, especially the ab

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Kev

Bugboy, Absolutely love those SPBF photos. Such an elegant species. I paid my first visit to Park Corner Heath the year before Covid and found them.

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Kev

Dave, Great diary of late. You're having quite a month. Those Large Skippers shots are excellent, as our the SSB.

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Kev

David, you get some mighty butterflies in those dunes. Cracking DGF and Marbled White.

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Kev

Brampton Woods - 11th June 2022 I took a trip into Cambridgeshire in search of Black Hairstreak. The location was the lovely Brampton Wood near Huntingdon. This was my first visit to the wood, so it took a while to get my bearings and find the rides where they hang out. Once I had, there were good ...

We have been blessed once more with some egg laying Orange Tips in our garden. Garlic Mustard never fails to entice them.They take some tracking and move very quickly once ready to pupate, but perseverance paid off and we now have some pupa. We witnessed an Orange Tip emerging from it’s ovum. Excuse...

Thanks Trev

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Hi, would anyone please be able to help with an ID for this caterpillar. Seen by my wife on oak leaf in Ipswich area this morning. Many thanks in advance
Kev

Hi Essex, great photos from Bison Hill. Especially the Duke framed by the rapeseed field. We missed each other by a day. I paid my first visit to the site the day before and what a treat. I too found Green Hairstreaks to be plentiful, seeing c20 on the day (my biggest single haul by a country mile)....

Bumper day at Martin Down for you Wurzel. Those Grizzlies and Greenstreaks are fantastic.

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Kev Ling

Dave, catching up on your diary. Cracking shots of the Small Heath in flight. Not images you see very often.

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Kev Ling

David,

A fantastic start to your Pyrenees diary, especially the Two Tailed Pashas. I will never forget my first encounter with this species. A true heavyweight species.

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Kev Ling

David, Congratulations on finding your surprise SPBF. The same thing happened to me in Snowdonia in 2018. I had just started my climb up Snowdon, when a fresh SPBF settled next to me on the bracken. I was beaming all the way to the summit. People must have wondered what I was on. :lol: Kind Regards ...

Hi Trevor,

Thoroughly enjoyed yore reports of the blue fest at Tilshead. Sounds an amazing place. Cracking photographs too.

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Kev Ling

Lovely images from the Rhône valley, Guy.
I especially love the Provençal short-tailed blue in copulation. Just like Wurzel, the Chequered Blue is a species high on my list too.
Look forward to more reports.

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Kev

Thanks Wurzel: I do enjoy the Orange Tips details close up. Thanks David: Orange Tips still going her in Suffolk but I agree we don’t see them for long enough. They are my favourite. Another spring species that I adore is the Green Hairstreak. This has been my best year so far for them and unlike mo...

Thanks Wurzel and Guy, I couldn’t let spring pass without a few photos of my favourite species, the Orange Tip. They are still going strong and I’m hopeful for an egg laying female on our garlic mustard. F08CC2F8-981D-457E-BCA1-857FABDEB022.jpeg 2FEB5F57-3BCA-4315-BB38-4526AAAD8023.jpeg 35440491-3E0...

8th June 2022 - Bison Hill, Bedfordshire Having only ever seen a single Duke of Burgundy in my life (at Bentley Wood a few years ago), it had long been on my butterfly bucket list to visit the Chilterns and see them. So at last, a friend and I took a visit to Bison Hill, on the Dunstable Downs last...