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You can see the males wing in this pic of common blues

Ive discovered what that yellow flower is in pics 10 & 11 plus my own below its called a Birdsfoot-Trefoil, Common (Lotus corniculatus)

Seemingly the common blue needs this for its larve to feed on also wild thyme

None of the butterflies mentioned in the 1st reply have I ever seen in my area. I even have a mature holly bush in my front garden and theres plenty of ivy in the field behind us but I have never seen any holly blues either. The most regular visitors here are small tortiseshells, red admirals, commo...

For some reason when I clicked the original link the info top and bottom of the picture which I can now see, was not availible to me. It looked like a Flickr listing but shorn of the usual details you get on there so all I saw was the pic of the larve. I am a member of BCNI and they use CEDAR to all...

It seems that due to the way the scales on the male purple emperors wings refract light that from certain angles the purple colour becomes invisible. This effect therefore was not a camera problem. I see this is the butterfly which was chosen to be representative of this site. Where in the country w...

The book I found this in is on page 58 of: The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Butterflies & Moths By Sally Morgan MA http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=396535&cm_mmc=Google%20Adwords-_-PLA-...

I currently have a tree in my garden I just know as a hanky tree. It stands about 7 or 8 feet high. Its bark is covered in a fungus and more than half of it is totally dead to the point its affecte branches snaps off dry and dead. The leaves on the unaffected parts are a nearly whitish colour on one...

I think this clinches it!!

(VERY) Common Blues!

Common Blue (Male)

PS What is the yellow plant in numbers 10 & 11 above. (Heres one I took earlier)

When I spotted this butterfly I was sure it was an Argus or a small blue but it turned out to be a Common blue female. There are no Arguses in Northern Ireland and the small blue lacks the yellow wing spots.

Certainly looks like it but what kind of moth is it as I cannot find any info other than the picture you pointed to?

I spotted this larve in my garden but I dont know what it is

I suspect quite a few have migrated from the continent.

& not just moths !!!

Wow that was fast!! Thanks indeed

Here are small pair of small moths which I have never seen here before.) They have very fast wing beats practically hovering over my budliah plant. They are delta shaped and one of them clearly has a small yellow marking on the centre of its wings. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5730/21554418521_fc4...

Thanks for the advice. I will definitely track down some sedum spectabile in white or pink. Sounds like the white I think is what the tropical butterfly house people were growing.

Come September and things have improved. Of the species listed above I have now seen all except for the speckled woods. Evey time I lament not having spotted a particular species they seem to appear so heres hoping!