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Post by **Padfield** » Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:35 pm

Hi Celery. I'd be interested to know where your podalirius come from. On a blind tasting, the first one would seem to be feisthamelii, so from south of the Pyrenees, and the second podalirius. There - cards on table!

But is it right?

Guy

celery · Post by **celery** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 2:16 am

Guy - re podalirius question...

Pic 1: Taken on the cabant, an area of common land mixing light woodland with chalky hillside scrub which adjoins David Simpson & family's gîte - Saint-Meyme-de-Rozens, Dordogne, France - 25th May, 2016 - 1:52pm

Pic 2: Taken in the meadow area of David Simpson & family's gîte - Saint-Meyme-de-Rozens, Dordogne, France - 27th May, 2016 - 10:09am. About 500 yards, as the critter flitters, from the location of the first pic.

I'd love to claim Southern Scarce... but we're way north of the Pyrenees here I'm afraid to say...

trevor · Post by **trevor** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:13 am

HI Celery,

Your Scarce Swallowtail reminds me of a close encounter I had with one
in the Cevennes region of France, last June.
Just to watch it's floating, gliding, aerobatics was magical enough, but this particular specimen
seemed to take a liking to my aftershave, and twice after flying off into the distance,
would return and literally brush past my face. Fortunately it also posed for many photo's.

Best wishes,
Trevor.

celery · Post by **celery** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:56 am

Great stuff Trevor - just out of interest what aftershave were you wearing? Not 'Fox Scat' by Givenchy was it?

celery · Post by **celery** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:07 am

Nymphalidae

Comma Polygonia c-album

False Grayling Arethusana arethusa

Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus

Glanville Fritillary Melitaea cinxia

celery · Post by **celery** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:15 pm

Grayling Hipparchia semele

Great Banded Grayling Brintesia circe

Gulf Fritillary Araulis vanillae

Knapweed Fritillary Melitaea phoebe

celery · Post by **celery** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:33 pm

Lesser Purple Emperor Apatura ilia

Mangrove Buckeye Junonia evarete

Marbled White Melanargia galathea

Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia

celery · Post by **celery** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:33 am

Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina

Meadow Fritillary Melitaea parthenoides

Monarch Danaus plexippus

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui

celery · Post by **celery** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:47 am

Peacock Aglais io

Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos

Pearly Heath Coenonympha arcania

Phaon Crescent Phyciodes phaon

celery · Post by **celery** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:36 am

Purple Emperor Apatura iris

Queen Danaus gilippus

Queen of Spain Fritillary Issoria lathonia

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta

celery · Post by **celery** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:44 am

Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus

Ruddy Daggerwing Marpesia petreus

Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia

Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 8:05 am

Ooooooh Ruddy Daggerwing!

That third SWF looks like a slightly melanistic ab. if I'm not mistaken.

David M · Post by **David M** » Sun Mar 12, 2017 12:13 pm

bugboy wrote:That third SWF looks like a slightly melanistic tickets about if I'm not mistaken.

It's an absolute cracker. I see this far more often in Dark Greens/High Browns. I've certainly never seen an SWF marked so boldly.

celery · Post by **celery** » Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:11 pm

bugboy and David - thanks for your responses

For such a large and showy butterfly those Ruddy Daggerwings have some of the camouflage I've seen. They swoop off into the swamp and hang, wings closed, upside down near the bottom of a tree trunk. Almost impossible to tell from a dead leaf unless you see the initial movement.

The abnormal Silver-washed Fritillary was one of three with similar heavy markings at Bedford Purlieus in late July. The example shown was the one with the darkest overall look. Perhaps some peculiar climactic conditions at this location during the pupal development stage?

celery · Post by **celery** » Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:20 pm

Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae

Soldier Danaus eresimus

Southern White Admiral Limenitis reducta

Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria

celery · Post by **celery** » Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:30 pm

Spotted Fritillary Melitaea didyma

Wall Lasiommata megera

Weaver's Fritillary Boloria dia

White Admiral Limenitis camilla

David M · Post by **David M** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 12:09 pm

Another delightful sequence, celery, and you've done particularly well to capture the female Wall Brown in such an open pose. It's rare you see them like that.

celery · Post by **celery** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:20 pm

Lovely weather here today in Notts.

Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell (2), Brimstone (2) and Comma (3) active in my garden. Add these to the pair of Red Admirals I saw last Wednesday and I'm right about on track for the full set of overwintering imagos

Last batch of 2016 species...

White Peacock Anartia jatrophae

Woodland Grayling Hipparchia fagi

Zebra Heliconius charitonius

...I do have a batch of 2015 U.S species that I haven't ever posted - including a further 21 species I didn't see in 2016. Some lovely hairstreaks and swallowtails among them... I'll see what I can do.

celery · Post by **celery** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 5:39 pm

Small Tort from my garden - this Wednesday (15th March, 2017)

2015 Florida species - Hesperiidae

Baracoa Skipper Polites baracoa

Brazilian Skipper Calpodes ethlius

Clouded Skipper Lerema accius

Common/White Checkered-skipper Pyrgus communis/albescens - N.B. Can't tell these species apart in the field - but location means percentages are in favour of White Checkered-skipper Pyrgus albescens

celery · Post by **celery** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 1:55 pm

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