Reverdin's blues were on their way out. I saw several females and a male, all looking very tired and geriatric but happy! Of them all, this one was in the best nick, still showing a little of the trademark orange:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/argyrognomon1209.jpg)
Both species of short-tailed blue were flying, often in the same field. Here are first a short-tailed blue then a Provençal short-tailed blue:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/argiades1204.jpg)
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/alcetas1209.jpg)
I also saw a long-tailed blue, making the hat-trick, but it didn't stop, not being anywhere near any peas or bladder senna. Other blues included common, mazarine, little and chalkhill - the last out in good numbers but nothing like the plague proportions some of you are seeing in the UK this year.
Here is a brown argus:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/agestis1206.jpg)
It seems only yesterday the first dryads were flying. Now they are looking like yesterday's butterflies. This is a female:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/dryas1204.jpg)
Very few skippers were flying. I saw a few dingies and two Oberthür's grizzlies:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/armoricanus1202.jpg)
Heath was by far the commonest fritillary:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/athalia1206.jpg)
Finally, here are a couple of other bugs - a shieldbug (Dolycoris sp. - baccarum?) and a mantis:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/sloebug1201.jpg)
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2012/mantis1202.jpg)
I looked on the sloe for brown hairstreaks but had very little time as I had a rendezvous back in Huémoz in the early afternoon.
Guy