Spotted Fritillary Melitaea didyma Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma) (2).jpg Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma) (5).jpg Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma) (8).jpg Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma) (9).jpg Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma) (4).jpg Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma) (7)...

Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae).jpg Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) (2).jpg Soldier Danaus eresimus Soldier (Danaus eresimus).jpg Soldier (Danaus eresimus) (2).jpg Soldier (Danaus eresimus) (3).jpg Southern White Admiral Limenitis reducta Southern White A...

bugboy and David - thanks for your responses :) For such a large and showy butterfly those Ruddy Daggerwings have some of the camouflage I've seen. They swoop off into the swamp and hang, wings closed, upside down near the bottom of a tree trunk. Almost impossible to tell from a dead leaf unless you...

Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus).jpg Ruddy Daggerwing Marpesia petreus Ruddy Daggerwing (Marpesia petreus) (2).jpg Ruddy Daggerwing (Marpesia petreus) (3).jpg Ruddy Daggerwing (Marpesia petreus).jpg Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia Silver-washed Fritillary (Argyn...

Purple Emperor Apatura iris Purple Emperor (Apatura iris) (3).jpg Purple Emperor (Apatura iris) (2).jpg Purple Emperor (Apatura iris).jpg Queen Danaus gilippus Queen (Danaus gilippus).jpg Queen of Spain Fritillary Issoria lathonia Queen of Spain Fritillary (Issoria lathonia).jpg Queen of Spain Friti...

Peacock Aglais io Peacock (Aglais io).jpg Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes tharos).jpg Pearly Heath Coenonympha arcania Pearly Heath (Coenonympha arcania) (2).jpg Pearly Heath (Coenonympha arcania) (3).jpg Pearly Heath (Coenonympha arcania).jpg Pearly Heath (Coenonympha arca...

Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) (2).jpg Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina).jpg Meadow Fritillary Melitaea parthenoides Meadow Fritillary (Melitaea parthenoides) (3).jpg Meadow Fritillary (Melitaea parthenoides) (2).jpg Meadow Fritillary (Melitaea parthenoides).jpg Monarch Dan...

Lesser Purple Emperor Apatura ilia Lesser Purple Emperor (Apatura ilia).jpg Lesser Purple Emperor (Apatura ilia) (2).jpg Mangrove Buckeye Junonia evarete Mangrove Buckeye (Junonia evarete).jpg Marbled White Melanargia galathea Marbled White (Melanargia galathea).jpg Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurin...

Grayling Hipparchia semele Grayling (Hipparchia semele) (2).jpg Grayling (Hipparchia semele).jpg Great Banded Grayling Brintesia circe Great Banded Grayling (Brintesia circe).jpg Great Banded Grayling (Brintesia circe) (2).jpg Gulf Fritillary Araulis vanillae Gulf Fritillary (Araulis vanillae) (2).j...

Nymphalidae Comma Polygonia c-album Comma (Polygonia c-album).jpg False Grayling Arethusana arethusa False Grayling (Arethusana arethusa).jpg False Grayling (Arethusana arethusa) (2).jpg Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus) (2).jpg Glanville Fritillary Melitaea cinxia Glanville...

Great stuff Trevor - just out of interest what aftershave were you wearing? Not 'Fox Scat' by Givenchy was it?

Guy - re podalirius question... Pic 1: Taken on the cabant , an area of common land mixing light woodland with chalky hillside scrub which adjoins David Simpson & family's gîte - Saint-Meyme-de-Rozens, Dordogne, France - 25th May, 2016 - 1:52pm Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius) (2).jpg ...

Papilionidae Not a great year for Swallowtails in Florida, with barely passable pics of only 4 of the 9 (8 if you discount the possibly extinct-in-the-wild Schaus') resident species. Thanks, in-all-likelihood to the zealous and indiscriminate anti-mosquito spraying prevalent in southern Florida sin...

Riodinidae Duke Of Burgundy Hamearis lucina Duke Of Burgundy (Hamearis lucina).jpg Duke Of Burgundy (Hamearis lucina) (3).jpg Duke Of Burgundy (Hamearis lucina) (2).jpg Little Metalmark Calephelis virginiensis Little Metalmark (Calephelis virginiensis).jpg Little Metalmark (Calephelis virginiensis)...

Thanks Wurzel :) Yep, I'm particularly proud of that Dina Yellow shot - but I'd be even prouder if it was me that had actually taken it! That shot was taken by mrs. celery... here's the story... First day of our holiday and we showed up at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens in Coral Gables, just s...

Thanks for the interest fellas :) I was lucky enough to have three foreign trips last year. Dordogne for a week in late May - which I enjoyed so much I went back for another week in mid September, then south and central Florida for ten days in late November. Any species you don't recognise from your...

Small Blue Cupido minimus Small Blue (Cupido minimus).jpg Small Blue (Cupido minimus) (3).jpg Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas).jpg Sooty Copper Lycaena tityrus Sooty Copper (Lycaena tityrus) (3).jpg Sooty Copper (Lycaena tityrus) (4).jpg Sooty Copper (Lycaena tityrus) (5)....

Lang's Short-tailed Blue Leptotes pirithous Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous).jpg Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous) (2).jpg Martial Scrub-hairstreak Strymon martialis Martial Scrub-hairstreak (Strymon martialis).jpg Martial Scrub-hairstreak (Strymon martialis) (2).jpg Martial...

Common Blue Polyommatus icarus Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus).jpg Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) (6).jpg Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) (3).jpg Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) (9).jpg Geranium Bronze Cacyreus marshalli Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshalli).jpg Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshal...

Brown Argus Plebeius agestis Brown Argus (Plebeius agestis) (3).jpg Brown Argus (Plebeius agestis) (2).jpg Cassius Blue Leptotes cassius Cassius Blue (Leptotes cassius) (2).jpg Cassius Blue (Leptotes cassius) (3).jpg Cassius Blue (Leptotes cassius).jpg Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus Ceraunus Blue ...