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Re: celery
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:35 pm
by Padfield
Hi Celery. I'd be interested to know where your
podalirius come from. On a blind tasting, the first one would seem to be
feisthamelii, so from south of the Pyrenees, and the second
podalirius. There - cards on table!
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But is it right?
Guy
Re: celery
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 2:16 am
by celery
Guy - re
podalirius question...
Pic 1: Taken on the
cabant, an area of common land mixing light woodland with chalky hillside scrub which adjoins David Simpson & family's gîte - Saint-Meyme-de-Rozens, Dordogne, France - 25th May, 2016 - 1:52pm
Pic 2: Taken in the meadow area of David Simpson & family's gîte - Saint-Meyme-de-Rozens, Dordogne, France - 27th May, 2016 - 10:09am. About 500 yards, as the critter flitters, from the location of the first pic.
I'd love to claim Southern Scarce... but we're way north of the Pyrenees here I'm afraid to say...
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Re: celery
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:13 am
by trevor
HI Celery,
Your Scarce Swallowtail reminds me of a close encounter I had with one
in the Cevennes region of France, last June.
Just to watch it's floating, gliding, aerobatics was magical enough, but this particular specimen
seemed to take a liking to my aftershave, and twice after flying off into the distance,
would return and literally brush past my face. Fortunately it also posed for many photo's.
Best wishes,
Trevor.
Re: celery
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:56 am
by celery
Great stuff Trevor - just out of interest what aftershave were you wearing? Not '
Fox Scat' by
Givenchy was it?
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Re: celery
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:07 am
by celery
Nymphalidae
Comma
Polygonia c-album
False Grayling
Arethusana arethusa
Gatekeeper
Pyronia tithonus
Glanville Fritillary
Melitaea cinxia
Re: celery
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:15 pm
by celery
Grayling
Hipparchia semele
Great Banded Grayling
Brintesia circe
Gulf Fritillary
Araulis vanillae
Knapweed Fritillary
Melitaea phoebe
Re: celery
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:33 pm
by celery
Lesser Purple Emperor
Apatura ilia
Mangrove Buckeye
Junonia evarete
Marbled White
Melanargia galathea
Marsh Fritillary
Euphydryas aurinia
Re: celery
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:33 am
by celery
Meadow Brown
Maniola jurtina
Meadow Fritillary
Melitaea parthenoides
Monarch
Danaus plexippus
Painted Lady
Vanessa cardui
Re: celery
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:47 am
by celery
Peacock
Aglais io
Pearl Crescent
Phyciodes tharos
Pearly Heath
Coenonympha arcania
Phaon Crescent
Phyciodes phaon
Re: celery
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:36 am
by celery
Purple Emperor
Apatura iris
Queen
Danaus gilippus
Queen of Spain Fritillary
Issoria lathonia
Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
Re: celery
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:44 am
by celery
Ringlet
Aphantopus hyperantus
Ruddy Daggerwing
Marpesia petreus
Silver-washed Fritillary
Argynnis paphia
Small Heath
Coenonympha pamphilus
Re: celery
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 8:05 am
by bugboy
Ooooooh Ruddy Daggerwing!
That third SWF looks like a slightly melanistic ab. if I'm not mistaken.
Re: celery
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 12:13 pm
by David M
bugboy wrote:That third SWF looks like a slightly melanistic tickets about if I'm not mistaken.
It's an absolute cracker. I see this far more often in Dark Greens/High Browns. I've certainly never seen an SWF marked so boldly.
Re: celery
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:11 pm
by celery
bugboy and David - thanks for your responses
For such a large and showy butterfly those Ruddy Daggerwings have some of the camouflage I've seen. They swoop off into the swamp and hang, wings closed, upside down near the bottom of a tree trunk. Almost impossible to tell from a dead leaf unless you see the initial movement.
The abnormal Silver-washed Fritillary was one of three with similar heavy markings at Bedford Purlieus in late July. The example shown was the one with the darkest overall look. Perhaps some peculiar climactic conditions at this location during the pupal development stage?
Re: celery
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:20 pm
by celery
Small Tortoiseshell
Aglais urticae
Soldier
Danaus eresimus
Southern White Admiral
Limenitis reducta
Speckled Wood
Pararge aegeria
Re: celery
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:30 pm
by celery
Spotted Fritillary
Melitaea didyma
Wall
Lasiommata megera
Weaver's Fritillary
Boloria dia
White Admiral
Limenitis camilla
Re: celery
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 12:09 pm
by David M
Another delightful sequence, celery, and you've done particularly well to capture the female Wall Brown in such an open pose. It's rare you see them like that.
Re: celery
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:20 pm
by celery
Lovely weather here today in Notts.
Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell (2), Brimstone (2) and Comma (3) active in my garden. Add these to the pair of Red Admirals I saw last Wednesday and I'm right about on track for the full set of overwintering imagos
Last batch of 2016 species...
White Peacock
Anartia jatrophae
Woodland Grayling
Hipparchia fagi
Zebra
Heliconius charitonius
...I do have a batch of 2015 U.S species that I haven't ever posted - including a further 21 species I didn't see in 2016. Some lovely hairstreaks and swallowtails among them... I'll see what I can do.
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Re: celery
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 5:39 pm
by celery
Small Tort from my garden - this Wednesday (15th March, 2017)
2015 Florida species -
Hesperiidae
Baracoa Skipper
Polites baracoa
Brazilian Skipper
Calpodes ethlius
Clouded Skipper
Lerema accius
Common/White Checkered-skipper
Pyrgus communis/albescens - N.B. Can't tell these species apart in the field - but location means percentages are in favour of White Checkered-skipper
Pyrgus albescens
Re: celery
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 1:55 pm
by celery
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