Great to see some Corfiot butterflies Old Wolf 8) Having seen a bucketload of Lulworth this season I'm with Guy that's it's T.acteon . To my eyes they tend to wear to a darker colour than Smalls, which always take on a faded orange look :D I'd be interested in the gen about the Mallow/Oriental Marb...

Hi Old Wolf. Scolitantides is the genus - which includes vicrama . Some older books, and even some new books, retain the genus Pseudophilotes for vicrama , baton et al ., reserving Scolitantides for orion , and I'm guessing this is what your book does. So in short, I was agreeing with you that it i...

Guy, Thanks for taking the time to reply and thanks for the ID's. I am glad that my ID's were correct for the Southern Smalls. This gives me another lifer :D In regard to the blue, it is the same butterfly. It landed for a few moments which gave me enough time to grab a record shot and then try to g...

Hello all. I had a good few days of butterflying up mount Pantokrator whilst on holiday in Corfu back in May. Most of the butterflies I saw are fairly easy to ID, although Mallow and Oriental Marbled Skippers caused me some grief until I realised they have different shaped antennae. There are a few ...

Many thanks for your help Ben, it is very much appreciated. I wasn't sure if some of the pictures were good enough for a positive id, so I am well chuffed that you managed it. It’s a shame butterflies were not as numerous as you’d hoped - spring and early summer is the best time to target these sout...

Here are the last few that I have been struggling with if anyone can offer some help/advice. All were seen up Mount Babadag, between 1700 and 1900m. Exhibit A - This was seen at the summit over a railing and these are heavily cropped so I don't know whether they will offder enough detail for a posit...

P.S. I have a few more that I am not sure of Ben, so if I could be cheeky and ask for a little more of that expert help

I will try and post tonight but be warned, these are grainy from a distance type shots so they will really test you!

Ben, thank you for the help, it is very much appreciated. My Skipper kung fu is not good enough for that I am afraid as I couldn't even identify the species :D Exhibit A I had no idea but Exhibit B I could not choose between Mallow or Oriental Marbled so I really appreciate the expert help. With reg...

Ionian Emperor? No wonder you were excited. :mrgreen: It was most fortuitus that it chose the brief stop it made near to where I was standing on the bridge over the Koi pond. Anywhere else and I would have missed it. I prayed to the Butterfly Gods in the cable car on the way up to send me something...

Hello all, I have been trying to, very unsuccessfully, identify some butteflies seen on a trip to Turkey in August of last year and though I would post some pictures on here to see if anyone can help. First up are a couple of Skippers seen in the almost quite butterfly-less 'Butterfly Valley' which ...

My first Comma of the year seen on Sunday morning whilst walking the dogs. This brings my species count to 3.

My favorite came from a holiday to Turkey in August where I managed a day of butterflying up mount Babadag in Oludeniz in the Mugla region. The choice was a tricky one because there were a few lifers that day including my first Swallowtail. It may not be the best picture I took whilst there but it i...

Second butterfly of 2024 seen today and also the second species. A rather tatty Peacock was fluttering weakly around the back of a fence in the field out back of my house at lunchtime today. It landed to bask and try to warm itself on the fence in the early afternoon sun.

I am off the mark for 2024 with a Red Admiral laying low with wings tucked tightly on a pallet that someone had carelessly thrown away in the back field behind my house. I was out with my dogs at lunchtime and had left my phone on the kitchen side so I couldn't take a record snap of it but we are of...

I will eagerly await any reports from over the weekend which will decide when/if I make the journey again this year. Train strikes taking place on the Friday and Saturday are once again at a very inconvenient time for my butterfly adventures this year as Saturday 30th would have been ideal, weather ...

................and we're off. First sighting of the year was a Peacock in the bushes at the edge of the playing field out the back of my house. A movement caught my eye as I was walking past with my dogs and as I turned to investigate I caught a glimpse of a large pair of eyes peering out before it...

Hello Wurzel, Just reading through your diary and love the term 'Falsestreak' It is one I will definately be using :D :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: You can have a whole bunch of those for all the Brown Hairstreaks in your PD. Sadly one I didn't manage to catch up with this year and the only word I c...

Hello Guy, I think the is the Moth an African Peach Moth - Egybolis Vaillantina.

Interestingly I was as Stratford Butterfly farm recently and still have the identification sheet on my desk in front of me and I thought I recognised it from in there. I cannot claim to be a tropical moth expert

wow, 22 species on your local patch is pretty darn impressive :mrgreen: I second everyone else, Those Brown Argi (this seems like a good idea for the plural - Octopus-Octopi, Cactus-Cacti, Argus-Argi, it might catch on :D ) are something special. Great job on getting such great shots of both sides :...

Thanks for the kind words everyone :D I am glad you enjoyed the read as I very much enjoyed delving into the memories from the day to get them into some sort of coherent order. The female was a blink and miss it kind of meeting. I look forward to hopefully catching up with one properly next year if ...