Thanks Guy.

I'm enjoying my first season of this butterfly stuff so far

Ahh thank you! I didn't see any blue on it at all, but I guess some blues aren't that blue!

Thank you to those who helped to ID my last find.

I have another, photographed (rather badly) in the gardens at Beaulieu house today.

Any ideas? I'm thinking it might be a copper but I don't know which one. This was the best shot I could get.

Laura

Ahh! This is so interesting.

Funny that the author mentions A-level Biology early on in the article - I am an A-level Biology teacher and will now have another case study to add to my lessons on genetic sex-linkage. Super.

Thank you to you both for the info. I will have a read of that article.

I'm glad it's something interesting

Thank you! That's really interesting.

What does aberrant mean? I'm a complete novice so please excuse my complete lack of knowledge….

Hi everyone, I'm new to this, inspired by a butterfly walk with the wildlife trust last weekend to get more involved. Is this one a gatekeeper? It seems a bit too dark in colour, but that looks like the closest I could get. I saw it with wings open but couldn't get a picture. It was mainly orange. T...