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This is the February 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 March.

Please note the "theme" – “More than one”!

Helpful hint - any part of the life cycle.

Cheers

Mike

I've got a few for this category, but I'll try this one:

150mm 1/800 @f/8 on tripod



Kind Regards. Chris

these whites have gathered to lick minerals from the damp soil . yum.


charles

GVWs from me too

Here is a mating pair of Ringlets, so far, this was all I could find, maybe I will find something better in my image collection:

A Skipper having a piggyback.

I don't have a big collection yet, and this is all I could find,
A pair of mating Gatekeepers.

Denise

Caught this trio in a nectaring frenzy in one of the Great War cemeteries on the Somme last October. And, wouldn't you know it, a red admiral had just departed the scene! On one bush of Michelmas daisies I counted thirty peacocks!*




Bryan

*And, quite inexplicably, failed to take a photograph of this event

The orange/black/white ones are called Angolan White Ladies
The white ones I think are Two Dotted Borders (The book I have doesn't have great images of the whites with wings shut and it is only on South African Species)
The turquoise/black one is called a Large Striped Swordtail.

Taken in Congo.

I was very spoilt as they congregated along the riverbanks in groups like this very regularly!

Difficult one. not much choice....

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More than one, you say .......

I think this fits the bill!!
Alex

just to say well done FISHiEE on your first ever entry... it is superb !!

charles

Thanks Charls. Thought I'd upload species hopefully new to all

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Gruditch, that is a stunning shot!

Felix.

Felix wrote:Gruditch, that is a stunning shot!

Felix.

That IS a stunning shot Gruditch. Brilliant mate. You have just blown the comp wide open. Well done.

Denise

thanks Felix, Felix and Denise


Gruditch

Changed my mind!

I think this photo fits the bill...



It shows...
... in the back row:
Amanda's blue, then a group of black-veined whites with a wood white...
... in the middle row:
Amanda's blue, Escher's blue, Amanda's blue...
... and in the front row:
Turquoise blue, mazarine blue, then three Amanda's blues

Edit: I've just re-examined the photo at full res., and others I took at the same time, and for the record the middle one in the bottom row is Escher's blue, not Amanda's.

Guy

The three southern small whites keep a respectful distance behind the king. A black-veined white is in the background.