Thank you, Guy. I can beside warn before confusion between Lycoperdon sp. and Scleroderma sp.

[quote="Paul"]A comparison of maculinae species from Switzerland in 2010.... Mountain Alcon... rather worn male and underside... http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/ptkip/P1200281_filtered.jpg . . But this photo has taken me. ... Seems like Mazarine Blue - Cyaniris semiargus for me.

Paul wrote:Ohhh K..... not sure I dare try it.. ... but I might or should it be thans Traplican... any ideas about the other bright green/blue one??

Sorry, I don't other mushrooms from your photos.

Some fungi from the garden today, no idea what they're called :oops: ... all 1:40 f8.0 iso 400 filtered. http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/ptkip/s140f80iso400d001_filtered.jpg http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/ptkip/s140f80iso400a001_filtered.jpg Devil's Snuffbox - Lycoperdon perlatum...

Yesterday I have taken a Peacock in our garden. I just have returned from a trip to Jankovice with my wife and daughter and we saw : - Pale Clouded Yellow - Small Copper - Common Blue and a Reverdin's Blue . Sorry I have taken only bad photos but this butterfly had been posing badly only. :evil: But...

Thanks for all the help people and I am in awe that you had a clue from just a description, but It was neither. It most definately did not have the feathered antenna. Also, the white spot is in the wrong place. It was above and to the left of centre of the forewings as opposed to at the bottom. The...

I can confirm identification of Blue-spot Hairstreak and Pearly Heath. I don't ID other photos, but I can say they all are excellent.

Yesterday a.m. I have taken a Queen of Spain Fritillary in our garden.

In the afternoon I went to these meadows and snapped there:
- Red Admiral
- Peacock
- Small White (there were lots of)
- two Queen of Spain Frits
- Common Blue
- Berger's Clouded Yellow

I have taken: On Thursday, Sep 30th in our garden: - Peacock - Red Admiral - Small White - Bright-line Brown-eye - Lacanobia oleracea caterpillar On Friday, Oct 1st : Two Fox Moth - Macrothylacia rubi caterpillars on the our neighbour's meadow/horse pasture. On Saturday, Oct 2nd: Brown Hairstreak - ...

That would be Macrothylagia rubi . Edit: Right - same question twice and the other thread already had an answer... :( Excuse me. During sending this topic a "General Error" occured so I have inserted new topic sooner than I recognised that the first one had been successfully inserted. :oo...

Thank you!

Having returned from the evening walk with our daughter my wife reported me that they find four hirsute caterpillars on the margin of our neibour's meadow/horse pasture. I have found two giant caterpillars on the place she had described: 10A01_005.jpg 10A01_020.jpg 10A01_028.jpg Can anybody help me ...

Having returned from the evening walk with our daughter my wife reported me that they find four hirsute caterpillars on the margin of our neibour's meadow/horse pasture. I have found two giant caterpillars on the place she had described: 10A01_005.jpg 10A01_020.jpg 10A01_028.jpg Can anybody help me ...

The "bee from garden" looks like the Carpenten Bee - but it flies on Spring.

Thank you, Gibster!

Today I have sanapped a caterpillar in our garden, most probably some Noctuid, on a Sea Buckthorn leave, near the growing point: Can anybody say what is it, please?

Here is that one taken on Sept 24 2009 in our garden.

Another sunny and warm day but too windy for buterflies so there was few of ones. Nevertheless I have snapped: - Common Blue - Small Heaths - Small White - Small Copper - Short-tailed Blue female underside and upperside - and Pale Clouded Yellow female (I have watched her ovipositing to the uppersid...

Sunny and relatively warm but windy day and maybe the last this-year butterflies were taken by me near Jankovice: - Small Coppers - Berger's Clouded Yellows - Colias alfacariensis - Pale Clouded Yellow - Colias hyale - worn Adonis Blue - Short-tailed Blue females - Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - ...

I just have snapped a Queen of Spain Fritillary in our garden:
All photos are here.