March 2008 entries "Butterflies and People"

[Mike Young]

This is the March 2008 competition. Please read the competition introduction at:

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... .php?t=991

To enter the competition, please post a single reply to this message (1 post per member). You'll be able to edit your entry until 5th April.

Please note the "theme" – “Butterflies and People”!

Good luck with this the last of the themed competitions until next autumn, next month (April) we are back to an "Open" competition.

[Dave McCormick]

OK, dont have anything really for this month, except this clouded border moth that landed on my finger early last year:

[eccles]

That's a pretty little moth, Dave.
Continuing with fingers, here's a marsh fritillary from Priddy Mineries. Taken with Canon S3 compact with fitted close-up lens.

[Gruditch]

A Marsh Frit badge

[Gwenhwyfar]

Purple Emperor on a sweaty old foot!!

[Paul]

I generally bin photos where my digit is involved!!!!! can't do sandals either!! ( Brill photo) but first time I ever saw this character he buzzed me then disappeared, leaving me wondering what I'd seen ( never seen a Purple Emperor!).... he promptly returned, flew round me several times & landed on my shorts ( ex swimming pool). .... so, still never seen a P.E. but this Lesser P.E. was still momentous for me!!! in the words of Bart... "eat my shorts!"

[Charles Nicol]

here is a comma disguised as a cufflink... taken last august in Monks' Wood near Huntingdon

charles

[Padfield]

I've changed my picture, now there are so many super ones of lepidopterists in action!



This is a lesser purple emperor (clytie) in an ancient French hunting forest.

Guy

[FISHiEE]

Superb shot from eccles!

Don't tend to photograph butterflies with people but think I have the odd one in the archives

[FISHiEE]

Chalkhill Blue from the North Downs. Just emerged so didn't know what it's wings were for yet

Subject and camera handheld

John

[Ian Pratt]

Photographh of a small pearl-bordered fritillary on the cardigan of my wife taken in 2005. This is one of the rarest butterflies of the Isle of Wight.

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[Mike Young]

Heres a second brood Adonis blue male from late last summer, my arms were just long enough to get the shot with the 105 on the camera

[COLIN BAKER]

Sadly mine is a Black Hairstreak that had a run in with a bird.


Cheers


Colin

[Trev Sawyer]

Sorry, I KNOW it's not a butterfly.... but it's close:

A recently-hatched Atlas moth on my daughter's nose

Trev

[FISHiEE]

Superb specimen with not a scale out of place and a very nice picture of it indeed!

Hatched one of these out myself when I was a kid and have recently reared and hatched indiam moon moths.

[roundwood123]

Here is a pic of a Large Skipper that i found struggling to get out of my pollytunnel.

[David Tipping]

Purple Emperor and fan club at Fermyn Wood.

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[Chris]

Taken years ago on my old Samsung Digimax... I'm pushing the theme a little here. Does it include Butterflies and Dead People??

[Pete Eeles]

The Purple Emperor fan club - 14th July 2002, Bentley Wood.

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Cheers,

- Pete