Beautiful Butterflies 2018

Thanks for the ID tip Nige! I'll be on the look out. Probably won't get the chance to see them soon as I believe they are on their way out.

That's a very good tip Nigel! I've checked all my photos & is there on all the browns & not on the blues! I also look for the black lines in the fringe, but not easy to spot when the butterfly is worn. In the field I find Brown argus slightly smaller & stops more often than Blues that whizz on by.

It's more usually you teaching me, Hazel, so I'm glad to have helped. It was actually a tip I learned from UK Butterflies which has a useful 'similar species' heading although it is not always filled in.

That's the beauty of this forum, we all learn from each other, share photos, have fun, it's what lifes about! LOL

Thanks for that site too!

Hazel C said:

In the field I find Brown argus slightly smaller & stops more often than Blues that whizz on by.

I know what you mean about the blues, but sometimes they are deceptively meek, like this one I found recently which could hardly be bothered to get out of the way! Mind you, it was cloudy.

I also saw a my first Walls of the year.

And the underside

stunning photos one and all, thanks folks.

Sunday was another lovely day & not too hot for a walk out in the sun so we went to one of favourite places & for once the butterflies were posing quite nicely,

a Violet (Weavers) Fritillary,

Queen of Spain fritllary

& its underside with it's pretty silver plates

a Small Pearl-bordered

a rather worn Knapweed

& a Glanville

a couple of Common Blues caught in the act

& Short-tailed Blue

& finally a Great Banded Grayling, who are beautiful & very big, but never seem to pose open,

I'm very lucky to get such beauties at 15 mins drive from the house.

Such beautiful butterflies Hazel,   lovely photos too showing all the detail.

Still not many here this year & nothing like as exotuc as your beauties H!

Am growing my own, have four Peacock ones currently starting to pupate with a fifth one still roaming around thinking about it!

Apparently only two weeks pupation time!!

Very nice Hazel.