2019 BUTTERFLY and MOTH IMAGES..

Just got around to reviewing my images taken at NT Bossington on Wednesday (are you thereabouts @Kandy ?)

These might be useful to show the differences between 2 similar butterflies:

Silver washed fritillary





Comma







I only saw one Silver Washed Fritillary at NT Bossington, West Somerset (but clouds of Commas), but still managed to get 2 images of the former.

Today at a local reserve I saw dozens of Silver Washed Fritillaries, and only one settled on a flower about 10 feet away for about 2 seconds and flew away before I could photograph it.

 

A bit breezy for butterflies this morning, only 3 species seen


Marbled White



Meadow Brown (on Coltsfoot leaf)



Ringlet

 

Small Skipper

 

ID please!

 

Painted Lady

 

Yet another Marbled White




And yet another one of many thousands Meadow Browns

 

Great thread scrungee

Learning quite a lot about butterflies and moths so thanks

 

Grayling, folded wings make it almost invisible.


Silver Studded Blue, common where there is Cross Leaved Heath growing so there are plenty around here as there are lots of small lowland heath areas.

 

Small Skipper.


Female Ringlet.

 

Been rather too wet and windy for butterflies recently, the only one settled this morning was a Small Skipper.

 

According to Butterfly Conservation/the media there's supposed to be millions of Painted Ladies in S & SE England.

Next Tuesday and Wednesday look like good days for butterflies, and I'll be off to a couple of local reserves.

 

Bargain, half price membership of Butterfly Conservation at the moment Half-price membership offer N.B. Only by signing up to Direct Debit.