Well thanks a lot for everyone's thoughts. The consensus is that it's probably Green Hairstreak. With the benefit of hindsight it would have been interesting to have kept hold of it to rear it through, although having never done anything like that the thought is a little bit daunting I must admit, e...

Hi all I'm about the least 'green fingered' person going but I am trying to make back my garden more attractive to insects. Can anyone recommend a good, insect friendly, easily available, early flowering plant please? Thanks Steve I slightly hesitate to recommend it because it is such a thug but if...

Thanks everyone. Yes my initial reaction was to think Lycaenidae, and I still do. We are lucky enough to have Holly Blue, Common Blue and Green Hairstreak on the allotment and this chap was found on some Loganberry underneath a Buckthorn tree and about 3m from my Birdsfoot Trefoil patch. About 7m fr...

Hello, folks. David from Ipswich here. I've got a caterpillar that was presented to me at the weekend for ID. I had to say that I didn't know then, and after consulting my Thomas & Lewington and the species accounts on here, that I don't still really. Rather than put up my suspicions first, and ...