On Sept 17th I have taken two Herald Moths - Scoliopteryx libatrix in the cellar of our house. On Sept 19th I have snapped two Humming-bird Hawk-moths - Macroglossum stellatarum in our garden. They basked on our neighbour's breast wall. On Sept 207h I have snapped a Peacock in our garden and these b...

I hesitate if the first butterfly is worn Short-tailed Blue or Eastern Short-tailed Blue... Short-tailed Blue has 1-3 distinct orange spots near the spur. Eastern and Provençal Short-tailed Blues may have one tiny lacklustre yellow spot near the spur (but the female on this picture has even two ones).

Today I have taken four fluffs with gregaric caterpillars inside in our garden: Help me with the ID, please.

Yesterday I have taken in my garden: - four fluffs with gregaric caterpillars inside: photo1 , photo2 , photo3 and photo4 - worn Map Butterfly On our neighbour's meadow : - Swallowtail - Papilio machaon Here : - Red Admiral - Meadow Brown - Peacock - Berger's or Pale Clouded Yellow - Painted Lady - ...

Timing is everything, and first week in July hits most species.... but probably not Large Tort and Camberwell Beauty. Large Tortoiseshell has specific life cycle: It can be found most easily on spring and it is on of the first spring butterflies (this year I have snapped more them from April 1st), ...

Today I have found and taken to photos an Agile Frog - Rana dalmatina in our garden: photo1 photo2 photo3 photo4 photo5 I have removed the photo with the hind leg flexing because an expert of Biolib has notified me that this determination test is unrecommended (needless and dangerous for the animal)...

I saw a Brown Hairstreak in my garden but ha hadn't my camera by :( . I also many times saw a Short-tailed Blue male. Water voles gnawed holes into a pumpkin in my garden and another pumpkin (giant) partially eroded :evil: . I have clutch one of them to the trap. I found and taken to photos two grov...

Thank you, Paul, I thing so.

Today I have taken a number of photos of a moth in our garden. Can you help me with the determination, please?

Well, I shall complete my diary now. - On August 20th I have sanapped a Map Butterfly in my garden. - On August 22th my wife, my daughter and me have taken a part in the "garden party" at the house after my grandparents in Central Moravia . I have snapped these butterflies: - Small Copper ...

Today I have snapped in our garden:
- Small Blue female
- Short-tailed Blue male

Thanks for all!

On August 14th I have snapped two fritillaries but only upersides of ones. I Preliminary gues that they are:

- High Brown Fritillary female
and
- Dark Green Fritillary male.

The whole album is here.

Is there some posibility to determine the butterflies from these photos, please?

On August 8th I have snapped: - one worn Nickerl's Frit + 3 x Six-spot Burnet in the Traplice school park On our neighbour's meadow : - Clouded Buff female - Six-spot Burnet - Silver-spotted Skippers - Sooty Coppers - Reverdin's or Idas Blues: fresh female , worn female and fresh males - one Dusky ...

Lee Hurrell wrote: So that's what a Cicada looks like! Crikey, they are ugly.

Hi Lee,
this year I have taken some pictures of Cicada near Jankovice.

Traplican

I have noted similar phenomenon by some of my Reverdin's (in various extent, see album), e.g.: or Short-tailed:

On August 3rd I have snapped a White-point Moth - Mythimna albipuncta in our garden. On August 4th I have snapped: - Four-spotted Moth - Tyta luctuosa on the meadows behind the school - a beetle Larinus sturnus here - a burnet Zygaena carniolica here - Dusky Large Blues - Maculinea nausithous here -...

On Saturday 31st July I have visited these meadows near Traplice. I have taken there: - Red Admiral - Queen of Spain Fritillaries - upper and under side - Dark Green Fritillary ( under side ) - Nickerl's Fritillary - Weaver's Fritillary - Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Dusky Large Blues - Maculin...

Yesterday I have snapped a grizzled skipper which was determined by me as Oberthür's Grizzled Skipper - Pyrgus armoricanus and this determination was confirmed by Jiří Beneš from the Czech Entomological Institute. The skipper was taken in the school park, Traplice , near car park. Here are some phot...

Thank you.

I think it is plum, Prunus sp. is maybe the most attractive foodplant for Scarce Swallowtails. But on the picture below is probably a female laying eggs to the Dog Rose leaves (taken on July 11th 2008):
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