Lee, Clouded Yellow larvae have overwintered successfully on the Bournemouth cliffs in most of the last ten years. In the species specific album for the Clouded Yellow you will see my photo of a Clouded Yellow drying its wings on 15 Apr 2007. The empty pupa can be seen in the lower left corner. The ...

Well here goes...
1. Oak Eggar young larva.
2. Rosy Rustic
3. Square-spot Rustic (left) and Brown-spot Pinion
4. Slender Groundhopper Tetrix subulata
5. Nuctenea sclopetaria (excellent shot)
6. Brassica Bug Eurydema oleracea
7. Pass on the fly. Are you sure it's a hoverfly?

Misha

Too many piffling, not to say bogus sub-species IMHO!

Misha

More nit-picking, I'm afraid. I was about to upload a couple of Small Copper images into the species-specific album, but I found I was confronted with a choice between two alleged sub-species. Ssp " eleus " sounds suspiciously like the form elea from the Balkans, of which I have uploaded a...

Hi Deano. That's the larva of the Green Silver-lines moth.

Misha

Wonderful, an ovipositing female!

Misha

Like Eccles I have often noticed that Marbled Whites and other Satyrids seem to be particularly sensitive to noise, and over the years I have taken many photos of them on the point of take-off. It seems that it is mirror slap that spooks them. Some years ago it was suggested that the thickened veins...

I share Pete's doubts. My only experience of ovipositing QofS was in the Cantabrian Mts in northern Spain, where eggs were attached to the mountain pansies. Reluctantly, I suspect a Wall Brown may have been the culprit here.

Misha

Pete, I notice that for the Apollo in the species specific albums you list just two of the countless named sub-species. Do I take it that you do not want anything from the Pyrenees?

Misha

It's a sawfly larva, but I don't know which species.

Misha

What's a Fiery Skipper in the list of species for the species specific albums?

Misha

Broom moth Ceramica pisi. There's a green form with yellow stripes too.

Misha

Yes, I had just worked it out and have successfully posted a second image.

Misha

Thanks. But I'm still not clear what I should have done in the first place to get it into the correct album.

Misha

Pete, I think I must have messed up. I have uploaded a Large Tort. photo to the species specific albums. The thumbnail appears in the right place, but if I click on Large Tort. my image appears below the albums, and not in an album. Be patient with me; I'm a bit of a duffer with computers.

Misha

The green one looks like a sawfly larva, and they're Wood ants, not termites!

Misha

Meloe proscarabaeus is the full name.

Misha

That'll be the Frosted Orange.

Misha

At least one of those listed (the London Butterfly House at Syon Park) is now closed.

Misha

3. Orange-tip?
4. Small Copper?

Misha