The magazine has been printed now - price from me direct is £10.00, including postage.

Pemberley Books have their copies now, if you prefer to order from them.

Pemberley Books inform me they still have copies of Issue Seven - 2024, if you would like a copy. (I have sold all mine).

Try this one

European Butterflies Magazine is ready for printing now.

Here is the cover and some sample pages.

That is interesting - upside down - maybe Pete can turn it round for me?

European Butterflies Magazine is ready for printing now.

Please see Overseas Forum, European Butterflies Magazine for more details.

Two weeks ago I discovered my Amazon account had been classed as inactive. Apparently they do this if you have not sold anything for 3 months ( a very short time I think). To reactivate your account, enter your debit card details again - sounds simple. My debit card details could not be verified - I...

Scott Richardson has continued his articles about butterflies found on his farm in South Africa. He takes a look at the Charaxes species found and describes their behaviour and habitats. Specific interesting behaviours include hill-topping, feeding on dung, particularly carnivore, such as Leopard, a...

Mario Langourov of Wild Tours has contributed an article about the butterflies of North Macedonia. There are a good number of eastern species to be found here, including the Balkan Clouded Yellow and Eastern and Gruner's Orange Tips. Eastern Fritillaries are represented by Freyer's and Scarce Fritil...

Happy New Year everyone. Three more articles to introduce. David Moore has written about Mariposa Natures first trip to Romania in May. Like Bulgaria, Romania has a relative abundance of butterflies, with regions of unspoilt countryside. The trip found rare butterflies such as Danube Clouded Yellow ...

Dan Danahar has written an article about the complexities of recording for the Corfu Butterfly Survey. The society are to make use of DNA analysis of some of the more difficult to identify species such as Wood White, Green-veined White and Krueper's Small White. Another factor he discusses is the fl...

Markus Dumke has contributed an article about the butterflies in Bavaria, Germany. This is the first article in the magazine about butterflies in Germany - hopefully there will be more now. Bavaria is similar to Switzerland and Austria, with high mountains as well as lower sites. Butterflies in the ...

Pete Smith has kindly helped me out with another article for the magazine. He has written about his trips to Southern Spain in the spring to look for the special Fritillaries found then. He visited Andalusia to look for and find Aetherie Fritillary, Marsh Fritillary beckeri and Spanish Fritillary. O...

Pete Smith has contributed an article about butterflies in the South of France and the Pyrenees. He has photographed some of the rarer blues and ringlets. He seems particularly good at ringlets - a measure of a very good butterflier I think. Butterflies covered included Furry Blue and Ripart's Anoma...

John Needham has contributed a further article about the butterflies where he lives in the French Pyrenees. He thinks that there are more variations in butterflies now that the climate is changing. He has observed unusual variants locally including, Small Copper, Meadow Fritillary and Adonis Blue, a...

John Green has contributed the first article for the 2025 magazine. He is based in the South of France and has his own website - www.Butterflyportraits.com - with several thousand photos of European species. He is particularly interested in variations amongst species, illustrated here by Niobe Friti...

I am not depressed about the abundance of butterflies, but disappointed. I have had 60 years of enjoyment from butterflies since the age of eight. I doubt if an eight year old starting an interest in butterflies this year will be able to enjoy butterflies for another 60 years. What concerns me is th...

I managed to visit Kiplingcotes again on Tuesday August 13th. It was very disappointing, only one Brimstone and one Peacock, a couple of Meadow Browns and Gatekeepers. This summer has been terrible for butterflies and hoping for better in the future just isn't going to be good enough. I think we nee...

On the sixth and final day of my holiday - Tuesday August 6th - I went to Biberbrugg in Schwyz. It is 5 years since I was last here - enjoying Map Butterflies, Scarce Large Blue and Alcon Blue - not this time though. I did see some very flighty Silver-washed Fritillaries and the usual Brimstone (on ...

On the fifth day of my holiday - Monday 5th August - I took the train to Oberalppass. This is a very scenic, high altitude lake, with the possibility of high mountain butterflies. However, not many butterflies flying - only managed three to photograph - Alpine Heath, Large Grizzled Skipper and Mount...

In the afternoon of the fourth day of my holiday - Sunday 4th August - I took the train the short distance to Spinas - Beverin Valley. I have not been to Spinas for 8 years, because the Rhaetian Railway have been building a new Albula tunnel - this can be seen in the photo of the Bernina Express exi...