Hi Nick - apologies for the late reply... weekend and all that :oops: I know exactly what you mean - I have particular difficulty with Statira Sulphur Phoebis statira - luckily I didn't see one of them in 2016, so no worries there! :) Florida has around 50 types of skipper - including two Pyrgus tha...

Atala Eumaeus atala Atala (Eumaeus atala) (2).jpg Atala (Eumaeus atala).jpg Baton Blue Pseudophilotes baton Baton Blue (Pseudophilotes baton) (2).jpg Baton Blue (Pseudophilotes baton) (4).jpg Baton Blue (Pseudophilotes baton) (11).jpg Baton Blue (Pseudophilotes baton) (3).jpg Baton Blue (Pseudophilo...

Lycaenidae Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus - I saw a lot of Adonis Blues this year! Adonis Blue (Polyommatus bellargus) (6).jpg Adonis Blue (Polyommatus bellargus) (11).jpg Adonis Blue (Polyommatus bellargus) (14).jpg Adonis Blue (Polyommatus bellargus) - Saint-Meyme-de-Rozens, Dordogne - 25th Ma...

Orange-barred Sulphur Phoebis philea Wood White Leptidea sinapis

I'm posting these in batches of around 4 species - simply because if the data is lost before I post I don't want to have to re-do a large and complicated upload. This posting of multiple replies in one session means, however, that sometimes things go unseen - particularly when one's diary 'flips' ov...

Cleopatra Gonepteryx cleopatra Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra) (4).jpg Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra).jpg Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra) (2).jpg Clouded Yellow Colias croceus Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus).jpg Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) (4).jpg Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae Cloudless S...

Thanks Guy - your kind comments and help with IDs are always greatly appreciated. :) Pieridae Barred Yellow Eurema daira Barred Yellow (Eurema daira).jpg Barred Yellow (Eurema daira) (2).jpg Berger's Clouded Yellow Colias alfacariensis Berger's Clouded Yellow (Colias alfacariensis) (5).jpg Berger's ...

Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) (3).jpg Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) (5).jpg Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris).jpg Southern Broken-Dash (Wallengrenia otho) Southern Broken-Dash (Wallengrenia otho).jpg Three-spotted Skipper (Cymaenes tripunctus) ...

Mangrove Skipper Phocides pigmalion Mangrove Skipper (Phocides pigmalion).jpg Mangrove Skipper (Phocides pigmalion) (2).jpg Oberthür's Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus armoricanus Oberthür's Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus armoricanus).jpg Oberthür's Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus armoricanus) (3).jpg Oberthür's Grizzled...

Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus) (2).jpg Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon).jpg Mallow Skipper Carcharodus alceae Mallow Skipper (Carcharodus alceae).jpg Mallow Skipper (Carcharodus alceae) (3).jpg Mallow Skipper (Carcharo...

Hammock Skipper Polygonus leo Hammock Skipper (Polygonus leo).jpg Hammock Skipper (Polygonus leo) (2).jpg Horace's Duskywing Erynnis horatius Horace's Duskywing (Erynnis horatius).jpg Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus).jpg Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) (2).jpg Leas...

Bit of time on my hands at the moment so here's a pictorial 2016 round-up. Starting with Hesperiidae : Baracoa Skipper Polites baracoa Baracoa Skipper (Polites baracoa).jpg Baracoa Skipper (Polites baracoa) (2).jpg Baracoa Skipper (Polites baracoa) (3).jpg Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages Dingy Skipper (...

This solitary individual turned up in my garden on 9th August 2013... White-letter Hairstreak (Satyrium w-album) (2).jpg ...and almost 3 years later to the day (6th August, 2016) lightning struck twice! White-letter Hairstreak (Satyrium w-album).jpg The background to this is that there are no known ...

I'm not generally that keen on pictures taken on buddleia, but I'll make an exception here as sightings seem a bit thin on the ground. Dordogne again, unfortunately. This fella visited the terrace outside the gîte most mornings and evenings. Rather tatty, and being buddleia and all that, I wasn't mu...

Here's one taken by mrs. celery in Dordogne in mid-september. The typical southern european 'orangey' form.
Shafts of sunlight filtering through the dense woodland canopy = bokeh!

Further to Roger's observations here's one from a riverside walk at Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang, Dordogne taken on 13th September, 2016. Lesser Purple Emperor (Apatura ilia).jpg It's of the clytie form. It's also very tatty, but was by no means the only one still about - I saw about a dozen during the w...

'Bout the same as usual for these round my way - though a budding new colony was decimated by some inopportune Local Council/Highways Agency mowing on the approach to the sliproad of the new A46 a short walk from my village. :( 1. Uppers from a strip of agricultural land left fallow in the Vale of B...

Maybe these fellas are moving their stronghold north as there was no shortage up here in the sunny east midlands. Gimme a stick and I could probably knock you up a few dozen individuals right now from those hibernating in my outbuildings and my neighbours' cart-barn. My garden in late September... S...

Lots of encounters with these this year. Indeed I 'discovered' several individuals at two separate previously-unrecorded sites in the area around my village. Hoping for one in my garden next year :) . These shots, however, were taken further afield in Dordogne, mid-September. 1. Backlit 2. Nicely-ma...

This from my first visit to a privately-owned meadow in my home village, Vale of Belvoir. Dateline: May 17th.