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This is the March 2008 competition. Please read the competition introduction at:

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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 April.

Please note the "theme" – “Butterflies and People”!

Good luck with this the last of the themed competitions until next autumn, next month (April) we are back to an "Open" competition.

OK, dont have anything really for this month, except this clouded border moth that landed on my finger early last year:

That's a pretty little moth, Dave.
Continuing with fingers, here's a marsh fritillary from Priddy Mineries. Taken with Canon S3 compact with fitted close-up lens.

A Marsh Frit badge

Purple Emperor on a sweaty old foot!!

I generally bin photos where my digit is involved!!!!! can't do sandals either!! ( Brill photo) but first time I ever saw this character he buzzed me then disappeared, leaving me wondering what I'd seen ( never seen a Purple Emperor!).... he promptly returned, flew round me several times & landed on my shorts ( ex swimming pool). .... so, still never seen a P.E. but this Lesser P.E. was still momentous for me!!! in the words of Bart... "eat my shorts!"

here is a comma disguised as a cufflink... taken last august in Monks' Wood near Huntingdon

charles

I've changed my picture, now there are so many super ones of lepidopterists in action!



This is a lesser purple emperor (clytie) in an ancient French hunting forest.

Guy

Superb shot from eccles!

Don't tend to photograph butterflies with people but think I have the odd one in the archives

Chalkhill Blue from the North Downs. Just emerged so didn't know what it's wings were for yet

Subject and camera handheld

John

Photographh of a small pearl-bordered fritillary on the cardigan of my wife taken in 2005. This is one of the rarest butterflies of the Isle of Wight.

Heres a second brood Adonis blue male from late last summer, my arms were just long enough to get the shot with the 105 on the camera

Sadly mine is a Black Hairstreak that had a run in with a bird.


Cheers


Colin

Sorry, I KNOW it's not a butterfly.... but it's close:

A recently-hatched Atlas moth on my daughter's nose

Trev

Superb specimen with not a scale out of place and a very nice picture of it indeed!

Hatched one of these out myself when I was a kid and have recently reared and hatched indiam moon moths.

Here is a pic of a Large Skipper that i found struggling to get out of my pollytunnel.

Purple Emperor and fan club at Fermyn Wood.

Taken years ago on my old Samsung Digimax... I'm pushing the theme a little here. Does it include Butterflies and Dead People??

The Purple Emperor fan club - 14th July 2002, Bentley Wood.
Cheers,

- Pete