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P.J.Underwood wrote:As a clue-it seemed slightly darker than the Norfolk ones.Hankley Common is actively used by the army for training,and often on returning from overseas they,with their vehicles, are often seen playing their war games.They don't use live ammunition however.
P.J.U.

If it was gorganus it should look slightly paler than britannicus

Here is a photo I took of a swallowtail in Mt.St.Jean,mid France,in our garden there.Does it not look dark?
P.J.U.

P.J.Underwood wrote:Here is a photo I took of a swallowtail in Mt.St.Jean,mid France,in our garden there.Does it not look dark?
P.J.U.

Certainly not in the same league as britannicus, in my opinion!

Cheers,

- Pete

Quite a fluke

Going through some recent photos I looked at this one of Swallows on the wires. What's that at the bottom? Despite a doom-and-gloom article in a newspaper today, Torties are as numerous in this area (north Scotland) as you might ever want them to be. Our highest temperature this year has been a very pleasant 27C, far more tolerable than the heat of the south. I guess Torties prefer that too.

Jack

P.J.Underwood wrote:As a clue-it seemed slightly darker than the Norfolk ones.Hankley Common is actively used by the army for training,and often on returning from overseas they,with their vehicles, are often seen playing their war games.They don't use live ammunition however.
P.J.U.

There was a record with photo of a gorganus from newdigate, Surrey on Jun 10th this year, so it could be one of the offspring of that, or a recent migrant.

http://butterfly-conservation.org/8782/ ... -2016.html

Apologies for the lateness of this post

On 22 August, I saw a Brown Argus on my local patch and noticed the black marks on the forewings ringed by white but thought this was natural variation. However, after reading of a similar individual seen in the Therfield Heath area in 2015 I was prompted to investigate further. It looked like the aberrant form snelleni.

ATB

Peter