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Re: Reverdin
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:25 pm
by Reverdin
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:45 pm
by Reverdin
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:35 am
by Lee Hurrell
Hi Reverdin,
Lovely photos.
I'm usually wrong in these things, but isn't your rapae actually napi?
Cheers
Lee
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:29 pm
by Reverdin
Hi Lee... you could well be right.... I've been caught out like that before with lightly marked napi... but it was a big b****r!!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
- I'll look at it more closely.... thanks
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:32 pm
by Reverdin
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:01 pm
by Padfield
Fantastic photos, as always, Rev!
I think both your last Erebia are epiphron.
Guy
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:34 pm
by Reverdin
Thanks Guy, epiphron they are! As ever, much appreciate you keeping me right, I tend to come up with some maverick ID's on occasions
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:48 pm
by Reverdin
Day 9
A trip to a further high venue, at a different mountain pass. This time quite a long uphill trek was necessary, after setting off at 2200m, again in wonderful alpine weather. An early start meant we could make the most of butterflies rousing and nectaring before their most active daily routine. We turned round eventually at 2500m, and re-traced our steps, as the weather became more breezy and the clouds built up. All in all, an exceptional day.
I really had wanted to return to this place as it was the first time I saw Alpine Blue, and was disappointed then with my photos, which turned out poor. This time I was able to linger along the paths, and I hope did the species more justice. This time, my recollection of an electric blue upperside was tempered with them appearing from some angles as Common Blue like. Only from other angles did that electric colour flash out.
![IMG_0762.JPG (344.26 KiB) Viewed 2175 times Alpine Blue 1](./files/thumb_11311_052985c41ca0d829e22aae1bb35e10c1)
- Alpine Blue 1
![IMG_0791.JPG (364.31 KiB) Viewed 2175 times Alpine Blue 1 - different angle](./files/thumb_11311_2c00b8965fd324749e682f33aa7589d2)
- Alpine Blue 1 - different angle
![IMG_0810.JPG (272.94 KiB) Viewed 2175 times Alpine Blue 1 underside](./files/thumb_11311_7a39d9882a14e21cde29138104ad4b41)
- Alpine Blue 1 underside
![IMG_0940.JPG (327.8 KiB) Viewed 2175 times Alpine Blue 2](./files/thumb_11311_f808969d0ce48542917c96e819a77ca7)
- Alpine Blue 2
![IMG_0969.JPG (342.37 KiB) Viewed 2175 times Alpine Blue 3](./files/thumb_11311_4119f86b6790153fa539a68b69f78c8f)
- Alpine Blue 3
There was much more to come..
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:00 pm
by Reverdin
Day 9 continued.
There were other Blues around to savour.. immediately out of the car, Eros was making it's pale and beautiful presence felt..
![IMG_0724.JPG (459.2 KiB) Viewed 2169 times eros<br />eros](./files/thumb_11311_e05f8681c0a36e792b29beb332a8781c)
- eros
eros
![IMG_0733.JPG (304.42 KiB) Viewed 2169 times eros](./files/thumb_11311_91b87a5d424d9a2c0746639a28421298)
- eros
This female tityrus (edit) hippothoe must have been very fresh..
![IMG_0758.JPG (321.53 KiB) Viewed 2169 times hippothoe female](./files/thumb_11311_00f528a1e27b5c4d84af49a9123e4142)
- hippothoe female
Idas was ever present, and probably as plentiful as minimus was..
![IMG_0814.JPG (361.62 KiB) Viewed 2169 times idas](./files/thumb_11311_6b82c15cd97e2269beeadc27fe8f896c)
- idas
Glandon was being a little more shy, but one chap eventually found his moist patch more interesting..
![IMG_0963.JPG (486.6 KiB) Viewed 2169 times glandon](./files/thumb_11311_23d2d5c5ec52b352d0a20caa4ae16c99)
- glandon
Finally, and the suprising piece de resistance for the day was this fantastic emergent female arion...
![IMG_0990.JPG (265.89 KiB) Viewed 2169 times arion underside](./files/thumb_11311_b3d01b50c493387033ea0a4c65fcadf0)
- arion underside
![IMG_0998.JPG (494.19 KiB) Viewed 2169 times arion upperside](./files/thumb_11311_8a71e871152d3a0885a404b01977a8ae)
- arion upperside
and that takes care of the Lycaenids... a wonderful place for them.
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:33 pm
by Padfield
Hi Reverdin!
More fantastic stuff!
That tityrus must be hippothoe. A feature of the old genus Heodes, which tityrus really belongs to (I hate lumping), is that the pd line of spots on the forewing is staggered, in groups of two. In the old Palaeochrysophanus (hippothoe), that line of spots is smooth and continuous.
For me, that's decisive, BUT I could be wrong, as you know.
Guy
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:36 pm
by Reverdin
Thanks again Guy, I'm losing my touch.. just hadn't seen the males around, but your arguement is sound as usual.. changing it now... it was a beauty!!!
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:56 pm
by Reverdin
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:04 pm
by Padfield
Erebia 1 & 2 both look like mnestra to me.
Guy
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:08 pm
by Reverdin
Skippers were likewise fast and furious, but up at 2500m, this large one I think may be cacaliae, another first..
![IMG_0890.JPG (448.15 KiB) Viewed 2157 times ?Dusky Grizzled](./files/thumb_11311_fd388673b2bd843bad518ae53b01e9c2)
- ?Dusky Grizzled
and Silver Spotted Skippers were among the most common..
![IMG_0951.JPG (422.01 KiB) Viewed 2157 times Silver Spotted Skipper](./files/thumb_11311_3b312f51fde47022bed77e497b810447)
- Silver Spotted Skipper
At a similar height, I finally found an obedient Peak White, and only probably LOTSW1 know what that means to me...
![IMG_0847.JPG (350.95 KiB) Viewed 2157 times Peak White](./files/thumb_11311_6c72ce28888bd2648357c5a8a4719c6e)
- Peak White
![IMG_0862.JPG (404.44 KiB) Viewed 2157 times Peak White underside](./files/thumb_11311_d417a76c0c9016aeb4b650e096bae61d)
- Peak White underside
After this many joyous sightings, there were only the day's Fritillaries to come..
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:10 pm
by Reverdin
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:33 pm
by Padfield
It seems you had a fantastic trip!
I'm also pretty confident that's
cacaliae!
Guy
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:49 pm
by Reverdin
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:16 pm
by Padfield
Another year!
I've edited this. I think they're all shepherd's frit now. Reasoning to come latet - I'm multitasking at the moment.
Guy
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:28 pm
by Reverdin
I'll go with that!... thanks, as ever.
Re: Reverdin
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:22 pm
by Reverdin
This was to be our last day. It was a risk to decide to go chasing Phengaris species, as I had maps covering the start and end of the journey, but not the middle bit!.. A friend,
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
chanced in on the way, kindly supplied the missing link, actually more straightforward than I remembered. Sadly he couldn’t join us, but we journeyed onwards undaunted, with weather rather dubiously promising.
We need not have worried. The weather stayed kind and we reached our destination in good time, a lake surrounded by towering peaks.
![110709 P. nausithous 1106.JPG (295.8 KiB) Viewed 2125 times P. nausithous](./files/thumb_11311_d86f221ae20349e0a1af8fc90d64505d)
- P. nausithous
![110709 P. nausithous 1082.JPG (271.92 KiB) Viewed 2125 times P. nausithous](./files/thumb_11311_374aa0b0933d4894230cd395bba69873)
- P. nausithous
![110709 P. nausithous 1132.JPG (263.31 KiB) Viewed 2125 times Rare? upperside view of female nausithous](./files/thumb_11311_8e87a6b7efcf6af36122b23e1b876f17)
- Rare? upperside view of female nausithous
![110709 P. nausithous 1124.JPG (263.44 KiB) Viewed 2125 times P. nausithous](./files/thumb_11311_9b90b3fd025c448ce0418cf60ab49d11)
- P. nausithous
![110709 P. telejus 1058.JPG (278.43 KiB) Viewed 2125 times P. telejus](./files/thumb_11311_abd6a0ecb10cd0001938c61f0eb985b4)
- P. telejus
![110709 P. telejus 1126.JPG (266.03 KiB) Viewed 2125 times P. telejus female](./files/thumb_11311_4ad929f223dc684beaafb5f80c536c6b)
- P. telejus female
![110709 P. telejus 1184.JPG (295.17 KiB) Viewed 2125 times P. telejus female](./files/thumb_11311_aa4ed3e7964eec1861bfa0b51b81b234)
- P. telejus female
Ironically, one of the most pressing reasons for making this journey was for the male upperside of telejus... I didn't take this, but my son did!..
![110709 P. telejus 1220880.JPG (431.88 KiB) Viewed 2125 times P. telejus male](./files/thumb_11311_9c74a34d62e5555235524e723374a235)
- P. telejus male