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| Common Picture Wing |
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| Crab Spider |
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| Common Indian Crow |
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| Common Rose |
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| Blue Tiger |
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Friday, 26 September 2014
Friday, 8 August 2014
Clouded Silver
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| Clouded Silver Lomographa temerata 2 cm Wing Span, Daylight Flying Peterborough Garden |
Friday, 1 August 2014
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Monday, 28 July 2014
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Saturday, 26 July 2014
Thursday, 24 July 2014
Monday, 14 July 2014
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Butterfly Alley, Bedford Purlieus
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| Small Skipper |
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| Silver-washed Fritillary with areas of missing pigments on the inside of the hind wings |
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| Silver-washed Fritillaries |
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| Large White |
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| White-letter Hairstreak Also White Admiral, Brimstone, Meadow Brown, and Ringlet |
Sunday, 29 June 2014
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Large Blue
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| Large Blue at Daneway Banks Nature Reserve, Gloucestershire
Managed by Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, with the kind help from some
Welsh mountain ponies from Butt’s Farm (a rare breed farm in Cirencester) the
reserve provides the large blue with a unique habitat and special conditions in
which to breed.
The
butterfly relies on another species to help it’s lifespan along the way, a red
ant called Myrmica sabuleti which lays its eggs on wild thyme. Once hatched,
the caterpillars feed on the thyme before dropping to the ground where the
red ants mistake them for ant larvae and take them into their colonies.
There the butterfly larvae feed on ant larvae until they emerge as
butterflies.
There’s
a very short window in which to see the large blues, but if the weather
conditions stay good they might be around for about two weeks
if a visit is planned to see what must be one of our rarest
species.
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