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Small White - Favourite Photo 2018

Week 18

The end of the Favourites is in sight even if the weather is still wintry - but as my lens is being serviced personally I hope spring takes at least 4 more weeks to get started Just another gentle nudge that soon it will be time to post your Overall Favourite shot from 2018.

Please could I ask that everyone waits until a topic has been opened by me for a particular species before posting photos as then it will be easier to keep track of things? Of course our overseas members are very welcome to fill in the obvious gaps relating to rare UK migrants. As in previous years details of locations, dates, times and circumstances would be welcome as would any accompanying stories and anecdotes or other observations of behaviour and interesting other points.

Have a goodun

Wurzel

This is another of the photos that I took during a memorable visit to the local Garden Centre, during the hot and dry summer.

Numbers of both Small and GvWhites were 'mud-puddling' where hoses had been used on the plants. I have already shown the GvWs, earlier in this series, so now it's time for the Small Whites to have their opportunity:
Mike

I saw loads last year after April, having only seen one up then I was getting worried , which I needn't have done because they were every where come May.
I took loads of shots so I found it difficult to pick the one I liked best so I've picked three
One was taken in East Blean Woods in July and the other's in My Garden in Sept, it was hard last year to find any Butterflies as every one knows that actually opened there wings fully when taking Nectar, so I'm hoping this year for a warm Summer but not so hot has last year Goldie

At the end of each season I usually collect all the last remaining Small White larvae in my garden and let them pupate in a safe place.
I plant radish out for them and let it go to seed which attracts lots of egg-layers.

Vince

Quite unusual for me to get a decent shot of such a fluttery species:
Knepp estate, July 6 2018, 10.48am

Cheers
John W

Plenty of them about in late summer (unlike their cousins, Large & Green Veined). Not easy to get images of this species due to its propensity to alight only briefly. This male taken at West Williamston in Pembrokeshire on 25th August was probably my best effort:

Earlier in the summer last year there were far more Large Whites about than Small but later on they swapped places and by early September the Small Whites were by far the most numerous white flying.

My favourite shots are all from my garden;
Cheers,

Neil

Bookham, as it so often does, comes up with another fav image of the year, this very accommodating male sat very patiently whilst I took his picture from various angles.

Small White

I was so enamoured with my Small Tortoiseshell favourite on its ‘Stairway…’ that I kept a look out for further opportunities of a similar shot with a different species. About a month later at Kingston Lacey I got my chance when a Small White landed among a field filled with Ox-Eye Daisies. By hunching down so that I was level with the butterfly the fact that I was on a slight hillock led to the illusion that once again the butterfly had ascended the wooden ladder.
Have a goodun

Wurzel