March 23rd 2010
I just have taken to the photo a female of the Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis) in my garden

... and a Peacock sitting on the pavement in front of the bus stop near our house.

Today (20, Sat.Mar.2010) I saw a Comma (but not succeed in snapping) and a Peacock.

First it look like a sunny day but in the early afternoon cloud came in over.

Wild boars (Sus scrofa) probably engraved the voles on this meadow.

This week a number of flighting Greylag Goose wedges and a moment ago a wren ( Troglodytes troglodytes ) in my garden and the Lapwings ( Vanellus vanellus ) behind - real angels of spring! My first this-year butterfly! Small Tortoiseshell, taken in my garden: http://traplican.rajce.idnes.cz/Motyli_2...

Thank you very much!

Guy, can you confirm, that the butterfly on the pictures 5. and 6. above (" Aricia eumedon , male, July 21 2009, the Meadow Geranium grow on the humid humous soil") is really Eumedonia eumedon ? Here are all photos of this specimen: http://traplican.rajce.idnes.cz/Motyli_2009-07-21/#P09072...

Also of note were several active Common Lizards and a stunning Green Lizard ... Do you mean Lacerta agilis by the "Common Lizard"? I thing in English it is Sand Lizard (while here it is named in translation "Common Lizard", too). Common Lizard is English name for Lacerta vivipar...

Hi Guy, I have the whole article and they allude to a few of specimens only. Some of them have been observed in arroundings of Veľké Leváre , Slovakia, on October 10th. At that time they still consider it to be a local anomaly but then on October 16th they found a newly perished specimen near Radějo...

This is my personal diary. I haven´t a personal blog yet so I shall only list the species registered last year: Butterflies: - Aglais urticae - Small Tortoiseshell - Anthocharis cardamines - Orange tip - Apatura ilia - Lesser Purple Emperor - Apatura iris - Purple Emperor - Aphantopus hyperantus - R...

Thans, Guy. Alveus is alleged on http://www.lepidoptera.cz as endangered while armoricanus as critically endangered. I only anticipate according this evidence that it is more probable to encounter alveus than armoricanus near me.

Taken in SE Moravia (Czech Republic) , exactly here. Malvae is ruled out because the array of the boundary white spots on the frontwing is missing.

On August 25, 2009 I have snapped a grizzled skipper and I have identified one as Large Grizzled Skipper ( Pyrgus alveus ). But it may be also Oberthürs ( P. armoricanus ). Can solve on the pictures bellow if my determination is correct? http://img5.rajce.idnes.cz/d0506/2/2464/2464382_1434a15a0dd024...

The authors Hana Šefrová and Zdeněk Laštůvka from the Mendel's University, Brno refer about the partial 3rd breed of the Scarce Swallowtail in the western Slovakia and SE Moravia. Their article "Swalowtails surprised" has come in the Czech environmentalist journal Veronica in its newest No...

Hmmm, I should really determine it as idas or argyrognomon ... Are they surely excluded in UK?

I have consider soon idas regarding to similarity with some Matt Rowlings' pictures of one.

Guy, I cannot help but on the last Paul's shot I see an orange color in the first patch of the first wing backside. Furthermore on the last three shots the black spots on the upperside of the back wings are distinctive and the black borders of the wings are thin. I enclose shots of my Reverdins' hab...

I thing it is imposible to determine after photos. I have determined my butterflies as argyrognomon because it is more probable: According to the authorities argyrognomon is frequent on apropriate places near me while idas is rare here. But in mapping I allege it as Plebejus idas/argyrognomon .

I thing idas or argyrognomon . Here are my own photos of argyrognomon : http://img5.rajce.idnes.cz/d0504/2/2104/2104662_681c2af3c185b66bc130bb1aef272aa2/images/P090607_0248.jpg http://img5.rajce.idnes.cz/d0504/2/2104/2104662_681c2af3c185b66bc130bb1aef272aa2/images/P090607_0263.jpg ... and here is th...

I haven´t seen alcetas yet but on the other hand argiades is one of most common blues near me. I find it constantly in my garden and i have snapped it even in park lawn of Buchlovice chateau.

Identification was done by the experts of the Czech entomological institute. Furhermore the identification of the laying female was acknowledged on Biolib.cz as "certain": http://www.biolib.cz/en/imagedeterminations/id93785/?imagedetID=0 http://www.biolib.cz/en/imagedeterminations/id93786/...

Last year I succeed in snapping the female of Everes decoloratus laying the eggs to black medick head: http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/93785.jpg http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/93786.jpg Here is a male of Eastern Short-tailed Blue: http://img5.rajce.idnes.cz/d0502/2/2327/2327506_ccb17227fe23ca076466c97154...