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Green-veined White - Favourite Photo of 2024

Week 7

This time next week we’ll have eaten the first calendar chocolate and possibly be nursing a slightly sore head after several ales at the Winter Social! Soon be spring – just as well after the battering we had weather wise this weekend.

Please could I ask that everyone waits until a topic has been opened by me for a particular species before posting photos as then it will be easier to keep track of things? Of course our overseas members are very welcome to fill in the obvious gaps relating to rare UK migrants. As in previous years details of locations, dates, times and circumstances would be welcome as would any accompanying stories and anecdotes or other observations of behaviour and interesting other points.

Have a goodun

Wurzel

Probably saw fewer Green-Veins in 24 ' compared to the previous two seasons ,these two from Orlestone forest are my favourites. Allan.W.

Around my way this was a very common butterfly. One of my favourite photos is of the lovely colouring of this summer brood taken on 11th July This was in our garden on the 21th April
Julian

This individual in clackmannanshire early May was the highlight for me.

Cheers

Bert.

I saw my first Green Veined White on the 4th May at Monkton NR but I'd to wait until the 17th of July before I saw another at Reculver.

Last year i'd seen lots in my Garden, this year I saw none, hope fully things will return to normal next year Goldie

Bertl wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:27 amThis individual in clackmannanshire early May was the highlight for me.

I can see why, Bertl. That's a beautiful, rich underside.

Two stood out for me this year. The first was this lovely female seen at Crymlyn Burrows on 20th April:
The other was this male from the Arctic Circle in Sweden in early July:

Butterfly_Julian wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:42 pm Around my way this was a very common butterfly. One of my favourite photos is of the lovely colouring of this summer brood taken on 11th July
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This was in our garden on the 21th April

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Julian

Much the same here in South Essex Julian. The GVW had an absolutely fantastic year with very good numbers in late spring and summer. The same could not be said for late summer (a rather small common blue-sized individual that turned up in my garden being the highlight) but overall very good numbers. I suspect the damp conditions that have favoured species such as ringlet also favoured gvws .

Very poor numbers of Green-veined Whites around my patch here in Solihull this spring and although the summer brood did better, numbers were still appreciably lower than I would normally expect to see here.

My favourite photos were from the summer brood, first this nice female seen at Oversely Wood in July,
and this underside of a fresh female sitting in a bindweed flower seen at my local spot by Wagon Lane.
Cheers,

Neil.

A successful species throughout Essex, I found them at most, if not all, sites in Essex with the Green-veined White enjoying the damp rides at Hatfield Forest, the river banks of the Chelmer, and surprisingly for me the Essex Coastal Saltmarsh along the inland side of the sea wall. Last year they had an abundant 3rd brood along the River Chelmer but I was doing other things this year so I do not know whether they were successful again in 2024. I did come across 3rd brood individuals along the River Crouch estuary as late as the 3rd of October but the following images are from the spring and summer broods:

David M wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:12 am

Bertl wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:27 amThis individual in clackmannanshire early May was the highlight for me.

I can see why, Bertl. That's a beautiful, rich underside.

Thanks David. And remained perfectly still on an overcast day........easy to photograph .

Green-veined White

I took this on the road leading to Fovant Badges when looking or Dukes. Despite the weather I’d had a successful couple of hours and I was just loading the car up when I spotted a white butterfly flying along the hedge. I grabbed a few shots of it and then headed home. This turned out to be one of those shots taken on the spur of the moment, without any effort or fore thought and which when you look back on later stands out. As with a lot of this type of shot the reason for why it stands out I still can’t fathom hence there is no rhyme or reason for its selection as my Fave, it just is.
Have a goodun

Wurzel

One from the Gatwick Transect.
Vince

Back in April at Wanstead Park

This one was warming up in my back garden one morning in May. An opportunity to get the wide-angle macro lens out.

bugboy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 9:42 pmBack in April at Wanstead Park..

Lovely, strong underside, Paul.

GVWs are probably (always wavering between them and Orange-tips, but I really have a soft spot for gvws) my favourite White. They had a decent year in '24 .

I have selected this as my favourite photo. This one has been choosen as this was the last mating pair of the day out of SIX other mating couples that were recorded on my walk through Sewell and Totternhoe nature reserves. This was also my own personal record count in one day for mating GV Whites. It is also worth mentioning that this was also on the same today when thousands of whites, which included GV, Large and Small, were found spread out across two large radish fields. If it hadn't have turned very dull and cloudy shortly after 14:00pm I could have ended up with another one or two more pairs?

This shot was taken near Visp on August 31st. I wasn't specifically trying to get a flight shot - I just got lucky:



Guy