Dear, A new fresh design after 5 years: Dutch & English (although I still need to check my English language ): https://www.pyrgus.com/index.php?&Language=UK Some ID requests are there and I've still some others to post: If somebody has time to spent to check them out. Thanks in advance. http...

Thanks a lot for the information. Belgian season is coming to an end, although some 2nd -3rd generations aristocrats are flying around in my garden. Some nice season from my side, although I missed again the populi species :D . For those interested to see my photographic 2016 list, following http://...

Dear,

Last week I was in the Briancon area ( Valley of the Clarée) and have some outstanding ID Requests.

Anyone who can help here ? I numbered the butterflies. Thanks in advance.

http://www.pyrgus.com/koken/albums/e0e5 ... 879af54bb/

New approach and design of my website http://www.pyrgus.com.. hope you like it..


CU Wim

Thanks Guy

I made the correction:
http://www.pyrgus.com/species.php?speci ... anguage=UK
and
http://www.pyrgus.com/species.php?speci ... anguage=UK

The URL above is dropped... for the moment.

Hello, I managed to photograph +100 species.... that will be all for this year I guess.. (Belgium !) List with all species: http://www.pyrgus.com/list.php?language=UK or Scroll directly to the first one and use the small arrows in the right corner to navigate: http://www.pyrgus.com/species.php?speci...

Dear,

I currently looking at some older pictures and wondering whether these are Osiris or Minimus ( taken Val D'Herens - Switzerland)

http://www.pyrgus.com/species.php?speci ... anguage=UK

My guess is Osiris .

Thanks in advance.

But Willem's individuals are both classic Lulworth - really golden

When I first saw these skippers, I immediately made this observation.. Thanks for pointing this out as a characteristic. It's a new insight to me.

Dear,

Could this be a Lulworth Skipper ( shot taken in August - Spanish Pyrenees - some paler dots are visible ).

http://www.pyrgus.com/species.php?speci ... anguage=UK

Thanks for advice.

Dear, I went to Nothern France last week and came back with a number of photographs of Marbled Whites :D of http://www.pyrgus.com/species.php?species=171&language=UK . On one of them I noted a red spot... http://www.pyrgus.com/ID/IMG_1697.jpg Are these small insects ... mites ? Harmful ? Thanks

All,

For those who would like to be informed when I update my site I added a page on Google+ ( beiing a newbee to this type of social media ) : https://plus.google.com/111985314949676951663/posts
Hopefully this works.

Dear, As winter time is lurking around the corner, we're planning our Easter Holidays 2013. Last couple of years we went to Porto, Valladolid, Sicily, Sofia at around the same time.. although butterflies were present when visiting the regions, we would like to have your guidances on a region to be v...

Thanks Guy ! As always.

All, I optimized the site and :D my photographs... reduced the size significantly of each picture while improving quality ( I never thought of this before. :oops: ) , got the fullscreen pictures right.... added species list ... and some small stories in a blog...added facebook button.. automatic lan...

Dear,

Can somebody help me out for these blues ?

1. Adonis or Chalk-Hill ? How can I get this figured out for once and always ? I'm a bit desperate here..



2. Common Blue ?



Thanks for helping !!!

All,

I'm planning a visit to Mid - Italy... and I'm puzzled about the best spots at that time for butterflies... Abruzzo National Park was my first thought... but if anybody has another clue or hint, this is much appreciated..

Thanks to the bad weather conditions in Belgium, I finished my English - UK part of site this morning.. I hope you enjoy.. http://www.pyrgus.com/index.php?language=UK..

Hello,

A blue photographed in Sicily. Any clue... ?



Thanks a lot.

Dear,

Can somebody help me with the ID of following Caterpillar ?

http://www.pyrgus.com/blog/?p=44

Thanks in advance...

Wim

Just lots of work in the evening...