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This is the January 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 February.

Please note the "theme" - camouflage!

Cheers,

- Pete

Spot the orange-tip!



Well, I think this was the picture it's in

Bryan

Denise

Grayling on Westleton Heath, Suffolk

Wall at Crook Peak, Somerset last August.

My external hard drive has gone down...I think I've lost thousands of butterfly images

Martin.

That's bad news Martin - I'd call up one of the firms that specialises in retrieving data on corrupt and damaged drives.

I'm paranoid about my photos - and have them on a laptop and also on 2 separate external drives - one of which is kept in a separate (secure) location.

Hope you manage to recover the photos.

Cheers,

- Pete

Lots to choose from this month, but I like this one best... Cleopatra (honestly!) 2007, Rhone Valley, note how the small brown marginal markings reflect similar brown tips to the leaf serrations, and the HW cell brown spot is similar to a background leaf viral spot... suppose everything has a reason!



also... comiserations to V6GTO.. we've discussed dreams... but not nightmares until now!

I'm really sorry to hear about your hard drive, V6GTO, but I'm confident you'll be able to get the pictures back, even if you have to pay a specialist to do it.

Here's my camouflage entry: a grayling in Suffolk (Rendlesham Forest) this August:



Guy

Gwenhwyfar, your I. muricata is absolutely gorgeous!

It would be too easy with moths so here's mine:

this elderly painted lady is well camouflaged

charles

ps sorry to hear about your disaster Martin

Didn't have a lot to choose from this time, so heres a camo-comma

My entry for camouflage comp:



http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 864&size=l

This is not great quality, but when this was taken, my dad just waited for the meadow brown to stop to get a shot at all. Can you see it?

Why would a butterfly that develops crypto-camouflage also develop a prominent white mark? Does anyone know what genetic benefit the comma obtains from the, err, comma? If so, I would be interested if you could post a few words somewhere more appropriate on the forum.

Simon

Grayling seems to be popular here for some reason!

This one was the only one seen at a Butterfly Conservation field trip and attracted a fair amount of interest. It was seen in flight by only a few people and late-comers could not find it, so:

"You see the small red dot...that is a red spider mite. It is on the grayling"

I'm not entering (I'm not allowed!) but wanted to point out this shot from Dennis Dell on the Upper Thames BC website:

http://upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/P ... _DDell.jpg

A hibernating Purple Emperor larva in the branch of a sallow. Amazing camouflage!

Cheers,

- Pete

Excellent shot Pete, and how amazing is that camo !