2017 BUTTERFLY & MOTHS IMAGES

You may be right, I have difficulty in telling them apart!

 

Had a fab new species in my garden today, mainly feeding on the knapweed - a Silver-washed Fritillary!




While hanging around trying to get a good shot of it, I also found a Small Skipper




and a 'white'. It has veining, so I presume it is Green-veined not Small, but it is not as veined as others I have seen. Any opinions?

 

Brimstone


Silver-washed fritillary


It was dancing about, but its size caught my attention: how could a speckled wood be this big? When it finally landed I was looking at a female silver-washed fritillary with the rare but beautiful colour mutation




Meadow brown


Silver-ground Carpet moth


Vapourer Moth

 

What a lovely set of butterflies and moths! Thank you for sharing.

 

I've seen a fair number of these over the past couple of weeks.



I believe it's an Admiral.

 

Yes, a Red Admiral, to be precise. Lovely.

 

I saw my first (but late) Hummingbird Hawk Moth yesterday, it came into the garden flew around the Salvias and flew off!!!! I only saw it for about 10 seconds.
Perhaps it will return as it would remember where it's food sources are but it obviously wasn't in need of nectar just then.

 

Plus Commas, Marbled Whites, Peacocks, but none of the Blues and no Speckled Woods (yet) . Read a while ago that Commas are on the increase (numbers and range) and I've never seen as many as I have this year.

 

The only others I have seen are, Silver Washed Fritillary, White Admiral, Green Veined White and Silver Studded Blue.

 

Sorry I couldn't find a caterpillar thread, are these cabbage white caterpillar please.

 

Two lovely big furry moths resting during the day on my doors - one on the front, one on the back!

Drinker Moth




Oak Eggar

 

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Finally got a piccy of my first 2017 Painted Lady-Isn't she lovely-Isn't she wonderful ...go on admit it your all singing/humming along now
Did see her earlier in the month but as always was multi tasking and the photo on the little basic mobile i carry around with me in the garden, woz rub bish