Thanks Mike, I am afraid my photographic skills leave a little to be desired. I have hundreds of shots of empty flowers/branches/leaves where my target critter would have been had I been a bit quicker. I will try and pay more attention to the underside in future, but in the case of the Brown Argus, ...

When I first move to the area as a child in the seventies, all that land belonged to the Plant Breeding Institute and later Monsanto which is some sort of agricultural development company. I recall it being a sea of yellow oilseed rape on all sides which I wouldn't have thought the Small Blue wouldn...

Wow. I will definitely report it Trev.

I have certainly never seen one before so I am quite excited about seeing it anyway but it would be really great if they were setting up home in the area having been absent.

Thank you both. That's made my day. I have not seen these two species before and it's always nice to spot something different.

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Hi I am a newbie here and I was hoping somebody could help me identify (or confirm) a couple of sightings. The first I am hoping is a small blue. It was the tiniest butterfly I have ever seen. I am familiar with common blues and chalkhill blues and it was smaller than those. There was kidney vetch a...