hi Ian,
have you noticed that this butterfly is a different individual to the one you first posted?

hi Ian great find and a butterfly im sure you'll remember for a while. Im of the opinion that they are all periodic migrants because of the broad distribution of sightings across the south especially the south coast. I found one myself in july 2007 just across the water from you in new milton (find ...

Thank you denise for your kind remarks. I voted for runners up charles punchy painted lady shot which had good depth and lovely structures in the teasel with a pleasing composition, susies collection of chalkhills which i found fascinating and for first slot the wonderfully composed and detailed sho...

i think what your looking at is bombus terrestris. the queen having the buff tail, and the males and workers the white,but what they were all doing together sounds as if they had in some way been disturbed before you found them.

Firstly I would like to thank you lisa for your very generous remarks on my image. Like you the winner for me was m_galathea in a thoroughly rounded display of both ability and imagination in the use of photoshop. Also worth mentioning I feel are the effort and skill applied to pauls "mach 2&qu...