Skipper IDs
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:17 pm
My third group of IDs please from French Alps and Auvergne trip, turning attention to skippers...
First skipper that I saw - a Marbled Skipper ?
![19175](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19175)
Red underwing Skippers ?
![19182](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19182)
![19181](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19181)
This obligingly tame Grizzled Skipper let me study its underwings - possibly Oberthur's ?
![19183](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19183)
![19184](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19184)
And I managed underwing and overwing of this specimen - Safflower ('clothes peg' on hindwing) ?
![19180](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19180)
![19179](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19179)
and another Safflower ?
![19177](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19177)
leaving these 2 Grizzled's puzzling me; less strongly marked hindwings than the 'Oberthur's' above, so possibly Alpine ?
![19178](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19178)
![19176](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19176)
and from the Auvergne, an Essex Skipper (black antennae) and a female Lulworth (paw print on upper wings)
![19186](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19186)
![19185](http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?mode=thumbnail&image_id=19185)
thanks again
PS - My IT skills are modest; I've been using uploads to gallery - how are others adding photos to posts minus the photo properties footer ?
Simon
First skipper that I saw - a Marbled Skipper ?
Red underwing Skippers ?
This obligingly tame Grizzled Skipper let me study its underwings - possibly Oberthur's ?
And I managed underwing and overwing of this specimen - Safflower ('clothes peg' on hindwing) ?
and another Safflower ?
leaving these 2 Grizzled's puzzling me; less strongly marked hindwings than the 'Oberthur's' above, so possibly Alpine ?
and from the Auvergne, an Essex Skipper (black antennae) and a female Lulworth (paw print on upper wings)
thanks again
PS - My IT skills are modest; I've been using uploads to gallery - how are others adding photos to posts minus the photo properties footer ?
Simon