Butterfly for i/d please

[eddie17]

Butterfly for i/d please. Is this a Large Skipper emerging?

[Pete Eeles]

It certainly is! (and a male at that).

Cheers,

- Pete

[Piers]

Certainly a male Large Skipper, but looking at the insect's posture and wings I would gamble that it's wings are now 'dry' and shall not expand further than this. It is essentially crippled.

Felix.

[eddie17]

Thanks Pete and Felix. I did take photos over a half hour period and it never moved though it was alive.

[Piers]

Hi Eddie,

In which case it is certainly deformed. Inflation of the wings takes but a few minutes from emergence. If it was still in this state after half an hour then the wings are not going to get any larger.

Poor little chap..!

Felix.