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Image Taken on 13 Jul 2023
at 13:52 Image of day on 08 Sep 2023
The Gatekeeper Butterfly is smaller than the larger Red Admiral (lots of these this year)
and Peacock (only one seen this year on 18July2023).
Their antennae are shadowed on the leaf below.
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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2020
at 09:11 Image of day on 19 Aug 2020
A Gatekeeper Butterfly enjoying the nectar from a Ragwort flower.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2024
at 11:17 Image of day on 20 Aug 2024
Out in the meadow, and along the hedges outside our patch, Ragwort is
flowering in great burning clumps of gold. This gatekeeper Butterfly stops
off for a feed to fuel that endless fluttering search for more food and a
mate. The yellow flowers are a bit washed out here to make the detail of the
darker butterfly clearly visible.
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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2018
at 10:03 Image of day on 14 Sep 2018
Wild flowers have been flowering well and supporting large numbers
and variety of Butterflies.
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Image Taken on 15 Jul 2023
at 11:16 Image of day on 08 Sep 2023
A couple of days later this pair of Gatekeeper Butterflies are mating on a grass blade.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2024
at 09:31 Image of day on 20 Aug 2024
A Gatekeeper Butterfly looks almost surreal on this pristine white Bindweed flower.
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Image Taken on 29 Jul 2019
at 10:41 Image of day on 17 Sep 2019
This Gatekeeper Butterfly has it's Proboscis only loosely rolled.
Look under the Antennae - it looks like a few specks of pollen are stuck to it.
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Image Taken on 17 Jul 2020
at 14:23 Image of day on 24 Aug 2020
We have a huge 'crop' of Gatekeeper Butterflies this year.
Here you can see the coiled up Proboscis when at rest.
When you consider what a tangled mess humans can make with a hose,
this piece of 'design' is very effective - and it has to be for this insect to survive.
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Image Taken on 12 Apr 2020
at 12:21 Image of day on 30 Apr 2020
Our first sighting this year of a green Veined White Butterfly, and
we are lucky enough to catch a pair mating. It is not unusual to see the
female butterfly feeding while the male does his 'thing'.
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Image Taken on 29 Jun 2024
at 08:35 Image of day on 02 Aug 2024
A Green veined White butterfly showing that the dark green markings appear
only on the lower surface of the wings.
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Image Taken on 18 Sep 2024
at 13:04 Image of day on 27 Oct 2024
A second brood female Green Veined White butterfly has hopefully laid per eggs
to overwinter as Chrysalises for next years emergence.
Meanwhile this adult ends her days feeding on some also 'past it' Ragwort flowers.
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Image Taken on 21 Apr 2009
at 16:53 Image of day on 14 May 2009
We have resurrected and upgraded our 'flight tunnel' last used 13
years ago making the best of what modern digital cameras have to offer.
Our site is awash with these Lady's smock (Cuckoo flower) flowers and
all the white butterflies, including this Green-veined, love them!
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Image Taken on 16 Jul 2019
at 08:33 Image of day on 05 Sep 2019
A morning Green-veined White Butterfly backlit by the morning sun.
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Image Taken on 18 Jul 2015
at 10:33 Image of day on 17 Sep 2015
Green-veined white Butterflies are fairly uncommon here, so we
were pleased to see this pair mating. More next year maybe!
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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2020
at 09:20 Image of day on 18 Aug 2020
A couple of Green-veined White Butterflies fluttering in the grass as they
get 'worked up' prior to mating.
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Image Taken on 16 Aug 2023
at 12:52 Image of day on 15 Oct 2023
A pristine Green-veined white - at this time of year it must be the second of the years two broods.
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Image Taken on 20 Apr 2016
at 14:39 Image of day on 25 May 2016
This Green-veined White Butterfly is an occasional visitor here, and
is very early considering the land elevation.
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Image Taken on 20 May 2023
at 12:59 Image of day on 07 Jul 2023
This Green-veined White Butterfly is basking on a leaf.
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Image Taken on 17 Jul 2013
at 12:15 Image of day on 04 Sep 2013
The Green-veined White butterfly has been a bit of a rarity here -
maybe the arable farming around us has encouraged them. Anyway,
along our track-side we found this one feeding on the rampant Blackberry brambles.
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Image Taken on 02 Sep 2018
at 13:52 Image of day on 26 Oct 2018
A well marked Green-veined white Butterfly feeding from a Dandelion flower.
The edges of the wings are well worn, but insects in general have no
nervous system in the wing surfaces, so don't get (or really need) any warning sensations.
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Ref: 20181026_df3_20180902_1352_044 green-veined white butterfly (wing tips well worn) feeding on dandelion(r+mb id@768).jpg
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