You’re welcome.

It’s a male Clouded Buff.

Has anyone come across this before: a butterfly with different-coloured antennae? Marsh Fritillary with different-coloured antennae (head on, close-up) - 25.05.2022 - Little Scrubbs Meadow, Chambers Farm Wood.jpg This butterfly has two different-coloured antennae: the left antennal club is a dull-or...

Hi,
This is an Essex Skipper. The straw coloured antennae indicate it is a female Essex Skipper, so it will not have the male sex brand.
With best wishes
Toby

Your moth is Pyrausta nigrata.

Regards

Toby

Hi Pete,

I do, but it is probably the worst photo that I've taken so far this year! It is on the sightings page for the Lincolnshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation.

See: https://butterfly-conservation.org/in-y ... -sightings

Regards

Toby

Finally had the fortune to discover a Large Tortoiseshell in the wild in the UK. A very faded individual seen yesterday (02.05.2022) in Little Ponton Quarry (disused), Whalebone Lane, Little Ponton, Grantham, Lincolnshire. SK931325.

My three photographs showcase (I hope) the exquisite beauty that exists in natural variation. All three butterflies were photographed this year at Chambers Farm Wood, Lincolnshire, part of the Bardney Limewoods NNR. A melanic Marsh in the meadow in May.jpg The Unspeckled Wood.jpg A VERY purple Purpl...