A few Fritillary images worthy of showing, nothing dramatic! M. diamina False Heath... IMG_4149_edited-2.jpg IMG_3978_edited-1.jpg B. titania Titania's Fritillary... IMG_4323_edited-2.jpg A. adippe High Brown..... IMG_4365_edited-1.jpg and E. aurinia Marsh Frit, the variant local to this region... I...

Yes, we saw a few Black Kites around the area. A couple of artaxerxes next, the latter ? allous , followed by a eumedon , the Geranium Argus which always seemed to defeat my efforts to get a good image.. only seen on our last day, though they must have been there when I was at the site the week befo...

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Next is C. semiargus, Mazarine Blue, a fave of mine.... a few fresh males around.... wish they would re-introduce it to the UK, preferably Yorkshire

Continuing on an already commonplace theme, here is my contribution to the Alpine Lepidoptera images currently on show... I found my destination to be a week or two behind in relation to my previous experiences at the same venue 90 minutes south west of Geneve. This meant fewer species and no new on...

Thanks Guy, yes, there are white scales present, though hardly there at all, so oeme it is..... not seen that form before, so OK c'est la vie. I am back in the UK now after a week of faultless weather but limited species success. I did consider getting in touch, but thought you might have better thi...

I would be very grateful for any confirmation this is manto . It was taken in the Haute Savoie at 1700m elevation on Monday. Am I correct in that the tiny black centres on the hindwing red spot(s) excludes eriphyle . It was accompanied by several oeme . It had me excited for a while :( but manto wou...

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I think you will find it is a rather lovely Moth, the Common Emerald.... see http://ukmoths.org.uk/species/hemithea- ... ria/adult/

sorry, this crossed with Bugboy

Thank you very much. She was a real lady!!

here are a few more from the day...

Re-aquainted myself with pruni again on Tuesday at Glapthorn where this year's adults are nectaring on the exact same bushes as their ancestors did. Lovely fresh female was showing off splendidly.... IMG_W3460_edited-1.jpg Then as more people descended on the pruni shrine and I had already achieved ...

About a dozen nice fresh salmacis in North Yorkshire this afternoon...... Showing the rather variable amount of submarginal red spotting. IMG_3134_edited-1.jpg IMG_3148_edited-1.jpg IMG_3155_edited-1.jpg IMG_3189_edited-1.jpg Context shot.... the side of the bank is pretty well covered in Rockrose, ...

Thanks Guy, that now makes entire sense!!

We definitely see more butterflies here, quantity wise, at least in the East where I was, I strolled through uncut meadows and saw maybe one, maybe none, in some places there. Too early for Monarchs for me :( Anyway, my final instalment of the lesser finds, from my perspective, but for completeness ...

Hi Guy... yeah, that is funny, mainly because you, as always, have a good point.... I don't know why that species went under my radar, and it looks good for my photo... common in May in that region... seems more likely than Wild Indigo.... delighted to re-name on that basis, as it would be another n...

So for the Browns.... IMG_2220.jpg Poanes hobomok /Hobomok Skipper Polites peckius Peck's Skipper _2951.jpg Polites peckius / Peck's Skipper Poanes zabulon Zabulon Skipper_2496.jpg Poanes zabulon : Zabulon Skipper male The Zabulon was fascinating, with rather marked sexual dimorphism, to say the lea...

A few skippers..... Please don't think my ID's are watertight as the differentiation between Sleepy and dreamy made me sleepy and dreamy, then the Wild Indigo and Juvenal's I found equally soporific.... and we only have trouble with Pyrgus :D Here goes.... IMG_1500.jpg Erynnis icelus / Dreamy Duskyw...

How about this for a Hairstreak..... "Red-banded"..... one I knew I might see, as said to be common... It was tiny, about the size of minimus and hated being photographed. I saw three during my whole adventure and on each occasion, when disturbed from under one's feet, (ground-dweller) the...

Hi, and thanks all for your supportive comments, :D appalachiensis is supposed to be large compared with glaucus Guy, and from what I've read, not otherwise that easily differentiated. The one I show here above was taken in NJ I think, so likely would be the latter. My impression was that I would ne...

Fortunate enough to have spent May in the US, with enough time to search for "local" ( within 100 miles or so) butterflies of Virginia and Maryland. Unusual sort of place! Very suitable looking habitats from a Europeans perspective being bereft of butterflies, whilst open but shady woodlan...

Explanation first..... You forget your login password, having been off site for a while, then you can't remember which of the several email addresses you registered last time with ( since you only vaguely remember setting it up years ago)... can't then get a new password... Anyway, that has happened...