Yesterday I have done a "small field work" focused to the P. argyrognomon/idas near Jankovice . By the way to the site on this place I have taken a Speckled Wood . At the site I have snapped: - more P. argyrognomon/idas males ( upper side of one) and females ( upper side of one) - Silver-s...

Yesterday I have visited the site and taken the butterflies, especially Silver-sudded/Idas/Reverdin's Blues here (grassy place with shrubs cleared only) , here (abandoned grassy orchard growed by the bush over) and here (the pasture) . I have noted these possible foodplants of Plebejus sp. : - Purpl...

There is a difficulty that the shade may depend on the wear of the butterfly, on the lighting, etc. Better idea is to compare shades of one part of the specimen with another part of the same one. For example if the fringes on the frontal margin of hindwing before the first orange spot are white by t...

Last evening my wife and me have had a outing and we saw:
- lots of SSBs
- lots of Six-spotted Burnets
- burnets Zygaena carniolica
- and I have taken my first this-year Silver-spotted Skipper - Hesperia comma

Foodplants of P. argyrognomon in the Czech Republic after http://www.lepidoptera.cz/index.php?s=motyli&id=99 are: - Purple crownvetch - Coronilla varia - Wild Liquorice - Astragalus glycyphyllos Foodplants of P. idas after http://www.lepidoptera.cz/index.php?s=motyli&id=98 are: - Black Medic...

Thank you, Guy! I have restored the folder with the photos from July 23th from the "recycled" basket and processed all photos with focused fringes of the female's hindwing. Apropos, this is why I always take more photos of the same object and hesitate to fling them away if at least a part ...

Thank you Guy! My only reason for "argyrognomon" was that idas would be a rarity.

I have posted this picture http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/125889.jpg to Biolib.cz as " Plebejus argyrognomon ". But an expert of Biolib has noted that "Perhaps it is Plebejus idas , which flies obviously from June to August, this year perhaps later - from July. Plebejus argyrognomon has...

Yesterday I have a trip to butterflies at he top end of Jankovice. I have snapped: On this place : - Weaver's Fritillary - Clossiana (Boloria) dia - Nickerl's Fritillaries - Dingy Skippers - Scarce Swallowtails (I saw 6 or 7 individuals this day) On this place : - The Forester and - Green Hairstreak...

Yesterday I have visited this footpath through the bushy bank and I have snapped there: - Eastern short-tailed Blues - Everes decoloratus here is a female putting eggs to the Black Medick flower heads and here is a male . - Silver-studded Blues - Small Skipper The bush was surrounded by the nets of ...

Last evening I snapped a Large Skipper in our garden. Then had a outing to our neighbour's meadow and I have snapped: - Silver-studded Blues - lots of burnets Zygaena carniolica , often matting or gathered into the banches on some plats (here the Deptford Pink past blossom) - Slender Scotch Burnet -...

Similar Adonis Blue with black marginal spots at the hindwings was snapped by me at Jankovice on May 23rd 2009.

Sorry, that’s probably another difficult one (politicians’ lies) for you to understand, but perhaps you are starting to get the idea how our (well my own) brand of stupid humour works. Jack After popular fictive Czech genius, inventor of everything and errant theatre owner is not true but mistake f...

I thing I have understood but I only wanted to ensure.

I have some blanks in identification of my observes: First - a pupa . On July 11th I have taken to photos this pupa on the ripe head of mountain clover: 10711_077.jpg Other photos: Photo1 , photo2 , photo3 Can anybody say what it can be? Second - Foresters . The same day I have snapped some Forester...

Incidentally, if you are ever in the area I can take you to an excellent site for Meadow Browns. And you never know, we might even see some Ringlets if we are lucky :) I never know when Brits talk turkey and when only joke :oops: . When I had searched on Internet what to do with the water voles in ...

Yesterday we have shortly stayed on the Meadows in Kudlovická dolina under ranch Manďák Kostelany. This and this parts were mowed excluding place inaccesible on account of prone and wet terrain - I have snapped most of butterflies just here. This part was unmowed . In the the prony a and wet part of...

We are just preparing to the trip to the meadows in Kudlovická dolina (I want to check the Scarce Blues) and then to Čertoryje Reserve in the White Carpathians.

I have post the photo to the galery, Pete. Bu I don´t known the name of this aberation.

Yesterday I have visited Zlín and seen a male of Everes decoloratus on one of the most busy places of the town, exactly here.

I just have snapped: - Variable Burnet - Zygaena ephialtes - worn Sloe Hairstreaks - Satyrium acaciae - Map Butterflies - Arashnia levana - Short-tailed Blue - Nickerl's Fritillary Here is the whole album and here is video of the Variable Burnet: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRSXqzV6Zms[/vi...