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A good year for Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) several having been spotted locally, having arrived with the heat waves to N Wales from southern climes. Gives me a thrill to welcome them 🥰

#lepidoptery #butterflies #butterfly #PaintedLady #vanessa #BigButterflyCount #lepidopterist

a Painted Lady butterfly feeds from a lavender flower. it is mainly orange above, with black tips to the forewings that are adorned with white spots, and black spots on the hindwings and forewings

A good year for Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) several having been spotted locally, having arrived with the heat waves to N Wales from southern climes. Gives me a thrill to welcome them 🥰

#lepidoptery #butterflies #butterfly #PaintedLady #vanessa #BigButterflyCount #lepidopterist

Adscita geryon
Cistus Forester Moth

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Dactylorhiza fuchsii
Common Spotted Orchid

#Orchid #Flower #Moth #Photo #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #UKWildlife #WildlifePhotography #Wildflower #Plant #Botany #Lepidoptery

a metallic green moth rests upon a white and pink orchid flower spike

My lepidoptery season began properly yesterday with the sighting of three species of butterfly in one day. Here’s one of them, one of a pair of two speckled woods flitting in pools of warm spring sunshine in Fairy Glen.
#SpeckledWood #butterflies #butterfly #lepidoptery #spring

on the left on a shiny beech leaf sits open-winged a speckled wood butterfly, deep brown with rows of creamy speckles, and one row of three brown ‘eyes’. More shiny leaves on the right

My lepidoptery season began properly yesterday with the sighting of three species of butterfly in one day. Here’s one of them, one of two speckled woods flitting in pools of warm spring sunshine in Fairy Glen.
#SpeckledWood #butterflies #butterfly #lepidoptery #spring

Some #photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon #walk in the #DightyBurn wooded #river valley near our home in eastern #Dundee, #Scotland. #Dighty #BroughtyFerry #Monifieth #Angus #Tayside #Photography #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #BirdingPhotography #RailwayHistory #viaducts #Woods #Wood #River #Heron #Herons #Butterfly #Butterflies #Lepidoptery #CommaButterfly #CommaButterflies #Dipper #Dippers #DipperBird #DipperBirds #Nature #Wildlife #UrbanNature #CityWildlife

A portrait orientation view of the arch of an old railway viaduct, with blue sky behind, and many coloured trees (dark and light green, orange and yellow) in front to the left and right of it.

A grey heron, facing towards right, climbing up the branch of a tree. The bird is compact, and has long legs, and is white, with a hooded grey back and body. Behind are green and brown twigs and branches.

A comma butterfly, facing upwards in the picture, feeding on green ivy leaves. It has a furry brown body, long brown antennae, and orange wings with brown specks and tips.

A dipper bird standing beside a rock to the right looking left over a river full of green, grey, yellow and white water swirls. The bird has a dark brown body, with details of feathers on it. Its neck and chest are white.

Some #photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon #walk in the #DightyBurn wooded #river valley near our home in eastern #Dundee, #Scotland. #Dighty #BroughtyFerry #Monifieth #Tayside #Angus #Photography #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #BirdingPhotography #Starling #Starlings #Sparrow #Sparrows #Dipper #Dippers #DipperBird #DipperBirds #PeacockButterfly #PeacockButterflies #Butterfly #Butterflies #Lepidoptery #Woods #Countryside #Nature #Wildlife #UrbanNature #CityWildlife #ScottishBirds

A starling perched, back to us, head turned right, among leafy branches. Back green with pink dots. Its head black and white flecked. And a pointed black beak.

A sparrow perched in a tree, front turned towards us, head slightly tilted. Fluffy grey tummy, wings various browns, black flash under its beak.

A dipper perched, back to us, head turned right, on a rock before a river full of dramatically swirling colours, greens, greys, whites.

A peacock butterfly perched on ivy. It has a very plump, fluffy, brown body, and bright red wings, with dramatic blue and white eye designs.

Some #photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon #walk in the #DightyBurn wooded #river valley near our home in eastern #Dundee, #Scotland. #BroughtyFerry #Monifieth #Dighty #Tayside #Angus #Photography #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #BirdingPhotography #Butterfly #Butterflies #SpeckledWood #SpeckledWoodButterfly #SpeckledWoodButterflies #LongTailedTits #Magpie #Magpies #Kingfisher #Kingfishers #Woods #Rivers #Countryside #Nature #Wildlife #UrbanNature #CityWildlife #Lepidoptery

A speckled wood butterfly on yellow dead grass stems. It is pointing up in the image, with wings spread. Dark brown body, and brown and spotted/eyed wings.

Two long tailed tits in a willow bush. They are facing towards and away from us, small light/grey body, and black/red long tails. Blurry tails, cos they're moving a lot.

A magpie perched on a branch, facing towards the right. It has a black head, white and blue body, and long green and purple tail. Very majestic.

A kingfisher perched on a branch with rocks behind. It is facing left, head turned slightly towards us. Mottled green/blue head and back, orange tummy.

This evening's check of the milkweed revealed several monarch eggs and this caterpillar. #MonarchButterfly #Lepidoptery

The underside of a milkweed leaf with a small yellow, white, and black striped caterpillar. Beyond the milkweed plant is a blurry fencerow and treeline. In the upper left corner, a bit of blue sky with white clouds

Therapist: The toxically aggressive #bird #lister that gets into #lepidoptery isn't real, it can't hurt you...

The Toxically aggressive bird lister getting into lepidoptery:

On my walk #today I headed for a hedge-lined lane where I knew there would be sun-traps. I thought I might see the first #butterfly this year, drawn by the warmth. Sure enough! Pararge Aegeria - a Speckled Wood - flitting in and out of the hedge. I managed a hasty blurred shot of it when it landed briefly in the undergrowth. #SpeckledWood #butterflies #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation #lepidoptery

small butterfly sitting amid fresh green leaves , open winged. Its wings are mid-brown colour, with rows of white speckles.

I suspect this Small Tortoiseshell has been around the block quite a while. #today after days of wind and rain, it settled on a wall warmed by the sun, seeming not to have strength to take off while I moved in very close. The last survivor of Aglais urticae this season, I suspect
#InMyGarden #SmallTortoiseshell #butterflies #ButterfliesUK #butterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #Lepidoptera #lepidoptery #AutumnVibes #Gaygardener

Small tortoiseshell butterfly, open winged, on a stone. The wings are orange, with black bars at the front, blue spots at the back

Few butterflies #InMyGarden this week - the changeable temperature & rain showers that the start of autumn has brought has meant just brief appearances from a few whites, and this bright Red Admiral taking advantage of a sunny spell to feed
#butterflies #butterfly #RedAdmiral #InMyGarden #GayGardener #GayGarden #today #Lepidoptera #lepidoptery #SaveButterflies #butterflyConservation

A Red Admiral butterfly feeds on tiny white flowers. Its wings have bright red-orange stripes on black background with white spots near each tip - they are partially closed, but open enough to reveal a black body and head at the top of the pic

Probably my fav moth seen #InMyGarden - though rare - is the Gold Spot. I’m looking out for it as September approaches. I did get a pic of one last year, as you see. It has a great name. Plusia festucae - presumably bec it looks like a rich jewel (as in Greek ‘plousios’, rich) & likes a habitat of tufted-grass (festuca).
It also likes damp habitats, exactly as my garden is now after weeks of rainy days. 🌧️

#moths #lepidoptery #GoldSpotMoth #GayGardener #MothsOfMastodon #macro #macroPhotography

Gold Spot moth feeding on tiny white flowers, alongside a bee. The moth is orange and yellow-buff, the forewing showing has pale yellow-gold scales, with two silvery white scales in the centre

#SilentSunday

#butterflies #Lepidoptery
#BloomScrolling #Florespondence #Flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #NativePlants #wildlife
#Nature #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #photography

Close-up with soft focus of a gatekeeper or hedge brown butterfly (Pyronia tithonus) resting on a wild lavender or Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) cluster of flowers, with its wings closed.
The gatekeeper has bright orange wing patches, a brown pattern on the edge of its wings, one large eyespot (with two small white 'pupils') on the forewing and one smaller eyespot on the hindwing.
The lavender cluster of flowers is cone-shaped and the flowers are deep violet-purple topped with lilac butterfly wing-like bracts.

Some #photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon #walk to the wooded river valley near our home in eastern #Dundee, #Scotland. #BroughtyFerry #Monifieth #Angus #Photography #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #BirdingPhotography #Birdstodon #Countryside #Wildlife #Nature #UrbanWildlife #CityNature #Butterflies #Lepidoptery #Rivers #Viaducts #RailwayHistory #Ducks #MallardDucks #Rivers #Woods

A moody and atmospheric view from shadowy tall trees looking through them up towards a high railway viaduct which can be glimpsed to the back right. Sunlight glints onto the tall brown tree trunk to the left and sunny spots come through occasionally onto the brown floor. The area is full of trees and plants, letting very little light in.

A speckled wood butterfly perched on a green leaf against a soft green background. The butterfly facies to the left, and its wings are sticking up, brown with dark and light patches on them.

Looking towards a river surrounded by green trees. At the front right of the picture is a pebble beach. On the other side to the left a brown and green tree filled bank rises. Sunlight speckles on the water which has dark rocks rising in it.

Two female mallard ducks standing in shallow water, facing back to back, away from each other. They have orange feet, brown, grey and white spotted plumage, and yellow beaks.

Can anyone tell me what this beautiful butterfly is called? #butterflies #lepidoptery

The lavender still has surprises - first ever visit of a Small Copper butterfly #InMyGarden which the lavender has attracted to spend the day with us. #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation #butterflies #lepidoptery

Small Copper butterfly on browning lavender flowers , its wings closed. underwings/forewings are orangewith black dots and brown margin. under hindwings are brown.

Small copper butterfly openwinged, on browning lavender./forewings are orangewith black dots and brown margin. hindwings are brown with orange band

Mostly it’s butterflies that attract my attention. But this ‘Angle Shades’ moth found its way into our kitchen & stayed motionless on the edge of the worktop
#moth #moths #lepidoptery #AngleShades #InMyGarden #gaygardeners #MothsOfMastodon