chaz Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Anybody else - or shall I tell? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Some of mine from today Marbled White Meadow Brown Comma Fritillary (Not sure which one!) 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 2, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2017 Time to spill the beans I think Chaz! Smashing pictures shadow - wondering about the last one being a fritillary though... Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 (edited) Time to spill the beans I think Chaz! Smashing pictures shadow - wondering about the last one being a fritillary though... Phil You're right, went to the wrong link when I was searching before!! Is it a Small Skipper? Edited July 2, 2017 by Shadow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 2, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2017 Was certainly thinking in that direction.... Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 (edited) Some of mine from today Marbled White Marbled White.JPG Meadow Brown Meadow Brown.JPG Comma Comma.JPG Fritillary (Not sure which one!) Fritillary.JPG Very good photos - but your "fritillary" is a male large skipper (prominent sex brand on the forewing - that dark diagonal mark, and faint checker pattern). Now my last snap is also a skipper - but one of the rarer species - a silver-spotted skipper (Hesperia comma). I will post another snap tomorrow. Chaz Edited July 2, 2017 by chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Today's butterfly - and (a clue) it's not a fritillary. Interesting camera details - taken with 550mm of zoom lens and tele-converter which I had fitted to photograph birds. Not my first choice to shoot butterflies but it seems to have coped OK. Chaz 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Today's butterfly - and (a clue) it's not a fritillary. DSC_3271-2-1.jpg Interesting camera details - taken with 550mm of zoom lens and tele-converter which I had fitted to photograph birds. Not my first choice to shoot butterflies but it seems to have coped OK. Chaz Wall Brown? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 (edited) Wall Brown? Yup! Well done sir. A wall (Lasiommata megera). It is, sadly, a species much in decline, now seen mostly at coastal sites. This one was on Portland on a clifftop. Request a species and I will post a snap tomorrow if I have one. Chaz Edited July 3, 2017 by chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Two snaps of the same pair of......? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 4, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2017 (edited) Large blues doing naughtiness hee Hee. And shadow beat me to the wall brown. Certainly a species I remember as a lad but can't remember last one seen...likewise small copper so how's about one one on here please chaz? EDIT - and spectacular moth in the park in Cheltenham today, Cream Spot tiger. Wonderful..... Phil Edited July 4, 2017 by Phil Bullock Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 (edited) Large blues doing naughtiness hee Hee. Phil Nope. Mating pair are not large blues - spot pattern wrong! So you will have to try again to earn your small copper. Edited July 4, 2017 by chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 4, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2017 Doh! Focussed on them at the moment as a colleague is involved in a local conservation project to reintroduce a colony. Will have to get the book out then Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted July 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2017 They look like Holly blues? Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 They look like Holly blues? Neil Agreed, but again the pattern of dots is different - so not holly blues either. Sorry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted July 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2017 Then they must be small blues Chaz? Please enlighten us on the dot patterns. I've struggled with these as I get them in my Garden. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 (edited) Then they must be small blues Chaz? Please enlighten us on the dot patterns. I've struggled with these as I get them in my Garden. Neil OK - first thing to say is that only the three species holly blues, large blues and small blues have no orange on their undersides. So the large blues are easy. They are not noticeable "large" however. They are rare and only found at a few sites and the spots on their undersides are large. Holly blues and small blue undersides are more tricky. Fortunately their upper sides are easy. I will deal with the undersides. The holly blue has a more scattered pattern. The small blue has the spots in more of an obvious arc and they are faintly outlined, although this difference can be very subtle. But the easiest way to tell those two apart if you can only see the underside is the body colour - holly blues have obvious blue bodies, they also have black dots on their legs but this is very hard to see at any distance. And yes, the rather battered mating pair are small blues. HTH Chaz Edited July 5, 2017 by chaz 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 These are some Holly Blues I posted on the "getting up close to wildlife" thread And a Common Blue that was posted by Johnny777 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Have you seen one of these. From the "Getting Close to Wildlife" thread again. Dappled White? http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/56877-getting-close-to-wildlife-litteraly/?p=2775133 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Have you seen one of these. From the "Getting Close to Wildlife" thread again. Dappled White? http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/56877-getting-close-to-wildlife-litteraly/?p=2775133 Yes I have, but that's a mis-identification. The species in that photo is a female orange tip. Chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Thank goodness somebody else is posting some really good photos, Phil. It was beginning to feel as if I had taken over your topic completely! Chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 5, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2017 Chaz when I started the thread the intention was for enthusiastic lepidopterists to contribute. My photos are limited to say the least so very glad indeed that you have been a stalwart contributor - and I have certainly learned much from your wonderful photos I say keep em coming.....please Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 (edited) I took this photo in August 2014 at Old Winchester Hill. At the time I was photographing painted ladies and dark green fritillaries and this butterfly was too far away for a good shot. I took one anyway and passed on. Fool! Recently I bought an Apple Mac (I might have mentioned that before?) and having imported my snaps into Lightroom on the Mac I realized that the 27 inch screen was merciless at showing up the less than perfect images. I went through everything I had tagged "butterflies & moths" to weed out the dross and when I got to this one....."Hang on a minute! Is that what I think it is?" YES! The head-honcho of the Butterfly Conservancy confirmed it as......? How I regret that I didn't clock it at the time - I would have tried for some much better photos than this. I looked it up - it's a real rarity - in the "500 sightings ever in the UK" league. So what is it? (clue - it is a fritillary) Chaz Edited July 5, 2017 by chaz 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted July 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2017 Well I'll have a stab Chaz, it looks like a Queen of Spain, but I'm guessing it's not . Neil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Well I'll have a stab Chaz, it looks like a Queen of Spain, but I'm guessing it's not . Neil Yep - that's what it is. I doubt if I will ever see one again and sadly I didn't realise at the time that that was what it was. Probably the rarest piece of wildlife I have ever seen. Chaz 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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