It has been a year of capturing a variety of butterflies ovipositing. This started back in the spring with a Speckled Wood, followed closely by another. Then I have witnessed both a Small and then an Essex Skipper, and recently even a Small Copper. Today, was a meeting with a female Large White who was obviously looking for somewhere to offload a few ova - and as there were Nasturtium in my mother's garden, I followed her as she fluttered around them in her attempt to find just the right conditions, with iPhone camera ready to capture the moment.
I very rarely get to photograph a Large White let alone a female, and then a female actively laying her eggs:
- Large White female ovipositing
Garden on Chignal Road, Chelmsford 21/07/2024
and her 28 ova laid on the underside of a leaf of a variegated form of Nasturtium:
- Large White ova
Garden on Chignal Road, Chelmsford 21/07/2024
