Queen of Spain fritillaries (Issoria lathonia) are mostly looking fresh:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/lathonia0812.jpg)
And feeling fresh:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/lathonia0815.jpg)
Queens of Spain are continuously brooded here - I photographed my first for the year in January and have seen them every month since.
Southern small whites (Artogeia mannii) still around in good numbers. This is a male:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/mannii089.jpg)
And this a female:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/mannii087.jpg)
Still a few bright Adonis blues (Lysandra bellargus):
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/bellargus0820.jpg)
But this one seemed to have undersides on both surfaces of the wings!
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/bellargus0818.jpg)
This is a pair of Berger's pale clouded yellows (Colias alfacariensis). The female is in front - the male's colours have been lost by the camera:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/alfacariensis084.jpg)
This tree grayling (Neohipparchia statilinus) had seen better days (but I photographed plenty of fresher ones):
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/statilinus086.jpg)
A single brown hairstreak (Thecla betulae) - this is not a competition photo...:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/betulae082.jpg)
And my favourite non-butterfly insect - this male praying mantis:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2008/mantis082.jpg)
Other species on the wing were: clouded yellow, small white, green-veined white, large white, common blue, baton blue, Chapman's blue, northern brown argus, wall, red admiral and small tortoiseshell.
Guy