Marsh fritillary, Eurodryas aurinia pair

[Rincewind]

There are a couple of colonies of these at the lac near us - don't often get the chance to get upper wing surface and lower wing surface in one shot so I was pleased to get this

 

[woof woof]

That's a great shot Mark. Lovely detail and colour and shapes.

Well taken and framed and perfect depth

 

[Rincewind]

That's a great shot Mark. Lovely detail and colour and shapes.

Well taken and framed and perfect depth

Thanks Alan, much appreciated, they were definitely otherwise occupied and ignored me totally so i could get right down at ground level to get the shot

 

[LCPete]

Agree with Alan that’s a great shot all in focus too
I haven’t seen Marsh Fritillary for a few years

 

[Rincewind]

Agree with Alan that’s a great shot all in focus too
I haven’t seen Marsh Fritillary for a few years

Thanks, appreciated, we have a few places here with resident populations, this particular one is part of a colony we have been promoting locally and registering in the Gov monitoring scheme to put the kybosh on a planning application for a holiday park

 

[Gav.]

Lovely find and capture

 

[Rincewind]

cheers Gav, appreciated

 

[Son_of_Thor]

Lovely Mark, well spotted and photographed - not a Butterfly I've ever seen before

 

[Rincewind]

Lovely Mark, well spotted and photographed - not a Butterfly I've ever seen before

Thanks Si, appreciated, they are scarce and seen as threatened as a specie, over here less so than in the UK, I am lucky that there are a few areas here local to me where there are stable colonies.

 

[Son_of_Thor]

Thanks Si, appreciated, they are scarce and seen as threatened as a specie, over here less so than in the UK, I am lucky that there are a few areas here local to me where there are stable colonies.

Good to hear they're doing well somewhere I was over in Brittany for half-term and there were noticably more Butterflies (and variety of species) over there than in my area of the UK at least (NW England)

 

[Rincewind]

Good to hear they're doing well somewhere I was over in Brittany for half-term and there were noticably more Butterflies over there than in my area of the UK at least (NW England)

I am down south of Toulouse - so far in the last couple of years i have photographed / Id'd 70+ specie, the blues do my head in - the frits are a bit better every now and then we get a bit of a suprise - I was out monitoring the Marsh Frit in May when I snapped a Painted lady, nowt special, they turn up every year in May, got home and looked at it on the monitor - hmm, turned out it was an American Painted Lady, only the 3rd sighting in France - it seems they are resident in Portugal so now it seems they are making there way up into France

 

[Son_of_Thor]

I am down south of Toulouse - so far in the last couple of years i have photographed / Id'd 70+ specie, the blues do my head in - the frits are a bit better every now and then we get a bit of a suprise - I was out monitoring the Marsh Frit in May when I snapped a Painted lady, nowt special, they turn up every year in May, got home and looked at it on the monitor - hmm, turned out it was an American Painted Lady, only the 3rd sighting in France - it seems they are resident in Portugal so now it seems they are making there way up into France

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Wow, that's a lot of different species- I'm not AT ALL envious!

Blues are easy where we are, they're either Common or Holly so really easy to tell apart, even at a distance..

We do get the odd Painted Lady here (or occasionally a mass of them if it's a bumper year). That one's another beauty - another I've never seen