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Hi all,

I've spent the last few days having a good sort out of the articles available on the website with a view to encouraging more contribution, but also making the presentation of the articles more professional. As a result, you'll find a new "Reports" menu that has been "promoted" from the Resources menu, and where all Articles and Trip Reports have a new format applied. All existing articles have been reformatted (e.g. better layout and size of images, more appropriate fonts, more professional layout, citation provided etc.).

I've added 4 new articles over the weekend. The first is Mark Colvin's excellent article on James Charles Dale: http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/reports_dale.php

The others are extracts from Vince Massimo's excellent observations on the early stages of various species, as posted in these forums, and these can be found at the following links:

Small Tortoiseshell - http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/reports_ ... rticae.php
Peacock - http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/reports_massimo_io.php
Comma - http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/reports_ ... calbum.php

If anyone feels they have a subject that would warrant similar treatment, then do let me know.

[EDIT] I've also added a "Sharing" bar that either appears on the top left of the main website pages, or at the bottom of each page (depending on your screen resolution) that provides options to share or print any page on UKB

Cheers,

- Pete

Magnificent work, accompanied by brilliant photography - I love the shot of the penultimate intar pale comma larva - not something I've ever seen a record of before .

Thanks William

The pale Comma larva was the first I have ever encountered.
I found it in the wild and it got paler as it developed. I have never seen another one like it. The adult butterfly that emerged was entirely normal, but it flew before I could get any photos.

Continuing efforts by Pete will result in more articles being posted shortly, but all the original reports can be found here: viewforum.php?f=37 and here: viewtopic.php?f=37&t=4078

So far I have covered 11 species in varying amounts of detail and another (Green-veined White) will be completed in April 2014.

Vince

"Early Stage" articles now in their own sub-section and a few more added

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/reports.php#articles

Cheers,

- Pete