Could have been grubs of some description. Just an idea, to sow a seed of thought for one of you knowledgeable folk.

nick

Now i have sorted through the rest of my pictures thought i would post another two. These were taken in far better light.

nick.

Late morning i saw 2 Red Admirals in the garden so i thought i would leave the wife indoors, again :oops: and go in search of butterflies. so i decided to drive to a small village called Forest Green, park there and walk towards Leithhill Tower. Walking northwards out of the car park i encounted my ...

Thats okay Wurzel, my pleasure.

But my name is Nick NOT Neil

hi wurzel they are all brown argus. here is a picture of a brown female common blue so you can see the difference for yourself. don`t have a picture my self, so i photogrphed it from a book. thats why the quality of the picture is rather poor. thought it would be easier this way for you, and me. nick

I agree with Guy, after scrutinizing both pictures i can see a sex brand in each picture. In the case of a s.skipper the sex brand is bold and curved, but with the e. skipper the sex brand is straight and thin.

Nick.

I did`nt manage to get out and about today, [watching the rugby world cup and then motor racing on the box] but i was watching to see what came into the garden. my first visiter was a humming-bird hawkmoth feeding on honeysuckle, seen 3 times during the morning. then a red admiral visited, 4 seen. [...

thanks everyone thats a great help. Padfield, lovely pictures. it seems i have a lot to learn, but i`m sure i`ll get there if i keep reading your forums, which i will.

thanks again,

nick

Hi David

The Painted Lady in the top picture looks over exposed to me. It looks like the colouration is due to the sun hitting the wings.

nick

I totally agree with the above comments.

I`m fairly new to all this, but learning all the time thanks to the good reports by the members of this webb site, but can someone explain what an instar is.

Thanks in advance,

nick

Hi Wurzel I`m sorry to hear you are getting rid of your new lens. I was waiting for your results [pictures] before giving an opinion, or saying anything. I was hoping the manufacturer would have improved the lens since i purchased mine, it seems they have`nt. I hope you don`t think i was trying to m...

I spent a lot of time on Denbie Hill from late July, until the end of August.(Yes, i love the place). Chalkhill Blues were out in very large numbers, which made it easier for the photographer, talk about spoiled for choice. So out of the many pictures i took this is one of my favourites. It was take...

Think your funny Mr. Colvin, well it made me chuckle, but i just lack the mouldy coloured green spots

Nick

This morning i popped out for a couple of hours to my local patch, Oaken wood. Hopefully to photograph Brimstones for the third weekend running. Alas no Brimstones, but i did see five Red Admirals, all heading south, two stopped for a brief moment to bask in the October sun, One Comma and two very w...

It certainly looks like the caterpillar of the moth Buff Ermine to me. The larval foodplants are a wide range of herbaceous plants, honeysuckle, hop, common nettle, barberry and birches. It is found in gardens amongst other habitats. I hope that helps Sammy.

NICK

I arrived at Denbies at about 4.40pm. it was overcast with the usual wind in attendance but was still hopeful of getting a few pictures. It was roughly 7 o`clock when i took this picture and the light was poor so i was rather pleased with the end result. The picture was taken on the 29.8.2011. shoot...

25. sept. one humming-bird hawkmoth, one red admiral, one small white, two large whites and one speckled wood in my garden.

red admirals are very scarce in my neck of woods.

hi wurzel do you set your new lens on macro when you are using it? i used the same lens, or very similar and used macro all the time. it takes a bit of getting used to but worth it in the end. i had never used a macro lens before. here is a picture i took with my sigma 70-300 macro hideandseek

Hi Lee

Lovely memory and picture. I can remember having a P.E. on my finger once, only the second one i had ever seen. Everyone else has a picture of it except me But i will always have the memory, if not a picture .

By the way the other chap you mention in short story was me.

hideandseek

hi again Chris thats better, but i would of left the flower stem in the picture and trimmed as you have. my opinion. i sometimes trim a picture more than once, until i am happy with the end result. the main subject of the picture can be at the top, bottom, left or right as long as it looks right, as...