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This weekend was sunny at least and I have snapped butterflies:

Before the lunch I have a small (about 1 km) trip in arroundings of my house :
- Common Blue
- Wood White or Réal's Wood White
- Large Copper - Lycaena dispar
- Silver-studded Blue

P.m. I have drive to the top end of Jankovice. But first I have visited the place where I had found the Southern Festoon caterpillars last year and where I obviously find the Eastern Short-tailed Blues. This once I have snapped there:
- Eastern Short-tailed Blues - Everes decoloratus
- Meadow Brown
- Wood White or Réal's Wood White

On the meadows, pastures and orchards at the top end of Jankovice I have snapped:
- Wood White or Réal's Wood White
- Woodland Ringlet - Erebia medusa
- Purple-edged Copper - Lycaena hippothoe
- Heath Fritillary caterpillar
- Adonis Blues
- Safflower Skipper - Pyrgus carthami - my first photos of this species, even the female putting the eggs to the foodplant of the caterpillars - cinquefoil; I have corrected this determination according to message from the Czech Entomological Institute
- Heath Fritillary
- Silver-studded Blue
- Common Blues
- Mazarine Blue
- Chequered Skipper - Carterocephalus palaemon
- Chestnut Heath - Coenonympha glycerion
- Black Hairstreak - Satyrium pruni
- Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Boloria (Clossiana) selene
- Grizzled Skipper

Near the forest road behind Jankovice I saw:
- Chequered Skipper - Carterocephalus palaemon
- Garden Tiger caterpillar

The whole album is here.

Yesterday I have traced my transect in arroundings of our house and I have snapped only:
- Small Heaths
- Silver-studded Blues
- an Adonis Blue
and a Burnet Companion - Euclidia glyphica.
The whole album is here.

Today I visided the locality of Everes decoloratus and in addition to the males of one I have snapped a female putting eggs to the Black Medick flower heads.

On the same place I have snapped a female of Silver-studded Blue putting eggs, most probably to the Purple Crownvetch (Securigera varia).

On the same place I have snapped a Chequered Skipper.

On the adjoining meadow I have snapped:
- Silver-studded Blue
- Purple-edged Copper female and male
- Burnet caterpillar (most probably the Six-spot Burnet - Zygaena filipendulae)
- Brown Argus

Then I have gone to another close meadows(about 300 m far) and I have snapped:
- Black Hairstreak - Satyrium pruni
- Large Copper - Lycaena dispar

I have pass through the bushy gill to another part of the meadows and I have snapped:
- some Noctuid caterpillar on the Meadow Geranium
- a huge moth (Fox Moth - Macrothylacia rubi?)
- another Large Copper
- Clouded Buff - Diacrisia sannio
- some uknown moth and another one
- Pearly Heath - Coenonympha arcania
- two Chestnut Heaths - Coenonymha glycerion
- Silver-studded Blues females
- Common Blues
- in course of return I have snapped a Comma.

Here is the whole album and here is a video of the Large Copper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX-IHAyG ... r_embedded[/video]

I am very busy so I complete my diary with delay. Last weekend was sunny so I have trips both on Saturday and on Sunday.

On Saturday June 12th:
Before the lunch I arroundings of football pool at Košíky:
- Pearly Heath - Coenonympha arcania
- moth Penthophera morio matting (fly-disable female has dwarf wings)
- Reverdin's Blue - Plebejus argyrognomon male and female
- Meadow Brown (but only bad photo)
- Sooty Copper - L. tityrus female
- Adonis Blue male
- Glanville Fritillary - Melitaea cinxia
- Purple-edged Copper - Lycaena hippothoe female

After lunch I went beyond Jankovice and first pass the forest road. I have snapped:
- Pearly Heaths - Coenonympha arcania (there were lots of, here is a photo of another one)
- two Small Skippers (but I am not sure if this is not the Large Skipper)
- worn Chequered Skipper - Carterocephalus palaemon
- two Commas
- a huge sawfly wasp larva
- about four Camberwell Beauties - Nymphalis antiopa
On the grassy place before this former wood hayloft (or what is it):
- two worn Pearl-bordered Fritillaries - B. euphrosyne
- two Large Copper - Lycaena dispar males

Then I visited the pastures, meadows and orchards beyond the top end of Jankovice. I have snapped:
- worn Adonis Blue
- a worn Safflower Skipper - Pyrgus carthami (but only one unfocused photo, then he flied away)
- Large Skipper - Ochlodes Sylvanus
- Small Heath - Coenonympha pamphilus
- worn Grizzled Skipper - Pyrgus malvae
- Chestnut Heath - Coenonympha glycerion
- Purple-edged Copper - Lycaena hippothoe

Here is the whole album and here is the video of the Reverdin's Blue female:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMaGzYErqw[/video]

On Sunday June 13th I have visited the top end of Jankovice and I have snapped:
- Wood White or Réal's Wood White
- Pearly Heath - Coenonympha arcania
- Meadow Brown
- Purple-edged Copper - Lycaena hippothoe
- Cicadetta montana
- Small Skipper
- worn Reverdin's Blue - Plebejus argyrognomon female
- Large Skipper
- worn Adonis Blue male
- Safflower Skipper - Pyrgus carthami

Here is the whole album.

On Thursday June 17th I had a short trip in arroundings of my house and I have snapped:
- Meadow Browns
- Common Blue
- Small Tortoiseshell
- the first this-year burnet - Zygaena viciae
- Small Skippers
- Pearly Heaths - Coenonympha arcania.

Here is the whole album.

On June 22th I have snapped a Buff Ermine - Spilosoma lutea (most probably) caterpillar in my garden.

Today I have watched a Large Copper female in my garden but until I returned with the camera she was away. There was only a Comma there. One sat on the our neighbour's breast wall and then re-sat to the plum-tree twig and sucked the honeydew.

On the neighbour's meadow I have snapped:
- Marbled White - Melanargia galathea
- Essex Skipper - Thymelicus lineola
- Reverdin's Blue - Plebejus argyrognomon female and male
- Silver-studded Blue - Plebejus argus female
- Swallowtail - Papilio machaon caterpillar
- Geranium Argus - Eumedonia eumedon - fresh female
- Zygaena loti
- Zygaena viciae

Here is the whole album.

Here is a video of the Swallowtail caterpillar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_D9eWOX_c[/video]

... and here is video of the Geranium Argus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd0bWoteHUs[/video]

Today I saw
- Essex Skippers
- Small Skippers
- Large Skippers
- Small White
- Common Blues
- Silver-studded Blue
- Reverdin's Blue
- Short-tailed Blue
- Geranium Argus (Eumedonia eumedon) - more specimens but I haven't succeeded in shottimg none of them
- Eastern Short-tailed Blues (Everes decoloratus)
- Marbled Whites
- Meadow Browns
- Pearly Heaths (Coenonympha arcania)
- Small Heaths
- Purple-edged Copper
- Heath Fritillaries (lots of)
- Nickerl's Fritillaries (lots of)
- Sloe Hairstreaks (Satyrium acaciae) (lots of)
- Zygaena loti
- Zygaena minos
- The Forester - Adscita statices

Here is video of the Forester:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkDmwNARBoo[/video]

Today was a sunny day. It seems that the weather has returned to the normal pattern: Thunderstorms are everywhere around but here is sunny.

I have seen:
- Map Butterfly - Arashnia levana, the summer phenotype prorsa, here is an interesting form of one with large underwings surfaces
- New Forest Burnet - Zygaena viciae
- rare (critically endangered) tiny burnet with bristly hirsute abdomen Zygaena brizae
- burnet Zygaena minos
- Heath Fritillaries - Mellicta athalia
- Nickerl's Fritillaries - Mellicta aurelia
- Holly Blue - Celastrina argiolus
- Lesser Purple Emperor - Apatura ilia
- Meadow Brown - Maniola jurtina
- Pearly Heath - Coenonympha arcania
- Small Heath - Coenonympha pamphilus
- Ringlets - Aphantopus hyperantus
- Marbled Whites - Melanargia galathea
- the Forester Adscita statices - I have re-determined it from Jordanita sp. because it has thick and cloddishly terminated antenae
- Commas - Polygonia c-album
- Large Skippers - Ochlodes sylvanus
- Small Skippers - Thymelicus sylvestris
- Essex Skippers - Thymelicus lineola
- Silver-studded Blues - Plebejus argus

Here is video of the Nickerl's Fritillaries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZnKdy0Ytcs[/video]

On Friday 2nd July I have shortly visited our neighbour's meadow (only 300 m from our house) and snapped :
- Large Skipper at the school garden fence
- Marbled Whites
- Nickerl's Fritillaries - Mellicta aurelia
- Zygaena loti
- Zygaena minos
- Zygaena viciae
- Emmelia trabealis
- Jordanita sp. - at least - it is REALLY Jordanita!!!

On July 3rd I have visited the top end of Jankovice. Between the last house and the fire reservoir there is a place overgrown with the Meadow Geranium where I reliably use to find the Geranium arguses - Eumedonia eumedon.

This once there were about ten specimens, they occur also in arroundings and here is the video of one of them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt2QvkEUBXA[/video]

On the meadows and orchards I have snapped:
- Green Hairstreak
- Map Butterfly - Arashnia levana
- Ringlets
- Heath Fritillaries
- Marbled Whites
- a Forester Adscita statices
- Zygaena minos
- Zygaena loti.

Ringlets and Marbled Whites sat on my hands and sucked the sweat.

Here is the whole album.

On July 4th I have had a trip with my wife and daughter to the aeolic sands between towns Bzenec and Strážnice about 30 km from here. There were tons of Ringlets. Nine-spotted moths occur in plenty count of specimens. Both were sucking the nectar from the Linden flowers.

I have recorded also a video of the nine spotted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYpluHYBpVA[/video]

(My wife wish me to save our privacy and not to show our family on youtube so I have warn her that she had entried to the scope of my camera)

Then we have visited the most southern part of White Carpathians near village Radějov. Along this road I have snapped:
- Dark-green Fritillary
- Large Chequered Skippers (seeing them to fly I have understood after what Hesperiidae have their English name)
- Scarce Copper
- Zygaena lonicerae

Unmowed bars were retained on some meadows and I have snapped there:
- Nickerl's Fritillary
- Chestnut Heath - Coenonympha glycerion

Here is the whole album.

Marvellous photos and videos of fabulous butterflies , traplican . I envy you having such a wide variety of species in your local and neigbouring areas .

Thank you Mark!

On Thursday July 8th I have snapped a worn Heath Fritillary in our garden.

On Saturday July 10th I have snapped:
- a Nickerl's Fritillary (?) in our garden (another photo of the same specimen)

In arroundings of the football pool at village Košíky I have snapped:
- Heath Fitillary (or is it Nickerl's?)
- Nickerl's Fritillaries
- the Foresters Adscita statices
- Silver-studded Blues
- rare burnets Zygaena brizae (more specimens)
- New Forest Burnet Zygaena viciae (on this photo behind - while approx.
equal sized like Zygaena brizae is ahead)
- Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet - Zygaena lonicerae
- unusually marked Short-tailed Blue
- Ringlets
- Large Skippers
- burnets Zygaena minos
- burnets Zygaena loti
- Sloe Hairstreaks - Satyrium acaciae
- Map Butterflies - Arashnia levana
- on the wetland the Large Copper female

Here
- Large Spippers
- first two this-year specimens of burnet Zygaena carniolica
- New Forest Burnet - Zygaena viciae

On the pastures at the top end of Košíky:
- Dark-green Fritillary
- the Forester Adscita statices
- Brimstone
- Short-tailed Blue female putting eggs to the Trifolium flowers
- Six-spot Burnet
- Zygaena minos
- Pearly Heaths
- and the Nine-spotted Moth, but not succeeded in snapping.

At the border of the forest road behind the top end of Jankovice:
- Pearl-bordered Fritillaries
- High Brown Fritillaries
- Heath Fritillaries
- Dark Green Fritillaries
- Large Skippers

Here is the whole album.

On Sunday 11th July:
The same forest road behind the top end of Jankovice:
- Great Banded Grayling - Brintesia circe
- Lesser Purple Empreror (but only bad photo )
- High Brown Fritillaries
- Ringlets
- Scarlet Tigers

On the sunny dry meadows and orchards above the top endof Jankovice:
- Forester Adscita sp. (statices? It seems differently than this for me!)
- this is another specimen of the Forester - most probably Adscita statices
- Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet - Zygaena lonicerae and a pair of the same species matting
- Nickerl's Fritillaries, on this photo matting on the mountain clover flowers (Heath and Nickerl's Fritillaries love field scabious, mountain clover and wild marjoram flowers)
- Heath Fritillaries
- burnets Zygaena minos

Here is the whole album.

Today I have snapped a Scarce Swallowtail sitting on the Blue Spruce in the front yard of our house.

Here my video of the Scarlet Tiger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GABxFbdZ-1k[/video]

Amazing short-tailed blue aberration! I've never seen one like it! Well done.

The purple emperor is a lesser purple emperor.

Guy

Thank you Guy, I just have corrected both the legend to the picture and my message.

I just have snapped:
- Variable Burnet - Zygaena ephialtes
- worn Sloe Hairstreaks - Satyrium acaciae
- Map Butterflies - Arashnia levana
- Short-tailed Blue
- Nickerl's Fritillary

Here is the whole album and here is video of the Variable Burnet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRSXqzV6Zms[/video]

padfield wrote:Amazing short-tailed blue aberration! I've never seen one like it! Well done.

I agree! If you could also post this image in the relevant species-specific folder, I'd appreciate it. The collective response from the membership in terms of images has been amazing - resulting in an outstanding resource! We just need to get all of the aberrations named and catalogued correctly!

Cheers,

- Pete

I have post the photo to the galery, Pete. Bu I don´t known the name of this aberation.

Yesterday I have visited Zlín and seen a male of Everes decoloratus on one of the most busy places of the town, exactly here.

traplican wrote:I have post the photo to the galery, Pete. Bu I don´t known the name of this aberation.

Yes - and thanks. It's now on the main species page.

Don't know about the name - but at least it's in the right place to get ID'd!

Cheers,

- Pete

I have really enjoyed visiting this impressive thread from time to time. Always something interesting to see ~ well done ~ magnificent effort.
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We are just preparing to the trip to the meadows in Kudlovická dolina (I want to check the Scarce Blues) and then to Čertoryje Reserve in the White Carpathians.

just to echo Cotswold Cockney's remarks... i always look forward to the latest sightings & videos from Traplice.
Keep up the good work !!

Charles