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Butterflies Page 16
Image Taken on 04 Jun 2011
at 14:48 Image of day on 17 Jul 2011
Just about the only butterfly recently - a large skipper. Looking
this up 'in the book' we see the underwing is completely
different.
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Ref: 20110717_df1_20110604_1448_064 large skipper male (top view) on blackberry leaf (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 19 Jun 2011
at 10:10 Image of day on 03 Aug 2011
We normally see skipper wings open or partially open hiding their
underwings, and did not appreciate that the bottom of just the
rear wing has a subtle green colouring different to all the other
surfaces.
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Ref: 20110803_df1_20110619_1010_192 large skipper showing bottom of hind wing (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 19 Jun 2011
at 10:28 Image of day on 03 Aug 2011
And here on a thistle flower with proboscis unrolled and in full action
sucking up nectar.
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Ref: 20110803_df1_20110619_1028_392 large skipper with proboscis probing thistle flower (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Aug 2014
at 14:16 Image of day on 25 Oct 2014
A pair of large White Butterflies mating on some dead foliage.
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Image Taken on 20 Apr 2016
at 16:21 Image of day on 25 May 2016
The Large White Butterfly - Scourge of cabbage growers - also likes
Oilseed Rape with which we are 75% surrounded.
It is the stuff that colours fields bright yellow - pretty from a distance,
not so good to be surrounded by for weeks of rather acrid stink.
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Ref: 20160525_df3_20160420_1621_043 large white butterfly(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 21 Jul 2017
at 16:20 Image of day on 05 Sep 2017
This large White Butterfly is another of the multitude of visitors to the generous teasel flowers.
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Ref: 20170905_df3_20170721_1620_011 large white butterfly feeding on lower ring of teasel florets (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 04 Jul 2018
at 14:54 Image of day on 20 Aug 2018
A Large White Butterfly feeding on a thistle flower.
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Ref: 20180820_df3_20180704_1454_135 large white butterfly feeding on thistle flower(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Aug 2015
at 10:53 Image of day on 10 Oct 2015
Not that common here (no rows of Brassicas for the 'girls' to lay on),
is this Large White butterfly on one of the remaining thistle flowers.
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Ref: 20151010_df3_20150808_1053_326 large white butterfly feeding on thistle flower(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Apr 2022
at 13:38 Image of day on 29 May 2022
A male Large White butterfly perched on a Hazel leaf.
At the front of the head you can just see the coiled up Proboscis.
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Ref: 20220529_d72_20220424_1338_079 large white butterfly male perched on hazel leaf(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 11 Aug 2018
at 12:56 Image of day on 06 Oct 2018
This year we have seen more white butterflies (Large and Small) than we normally
see over several years. This pair seemed intent on mating, didn't actually
finish the job in front of us, and finally took off together to make one of their
beautiful fluttering spirals into the blue and over the trees out of view.
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Ref: 20181006_df3_20180811_1256_130-158 large white butterfly pair attempting to mate 1-6 of 6 (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 29 Jun 2018
at 17:38 Image of day on 20 Aug 2018
A pair of Large White Butterflies spiralling into the sky in a mating ritual.
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Ref: 20180820_df3_20180629_1738_510-512 large white butterfly pair spiralling together about 10m high 1-3 of 4 (montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 07 Aug 2024
at 08:23 Image of day on 20 Sep 2024
In the morning sunshine this Large White Butterfly isn't yet warm enough to take flight.
On the right with wings closed it is surprisingly noticeable with just the white Antennae tips.
A few seconds later the partially open wings makes a quite startling appearance.
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Ref: 20240920_d72_20240807_0823_031+026 large white butterfly with wings partially open and closed (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 10 Jul 2015
at 15:49 Image of day on 11 Sep 2015
A Marbled White Butterfly feeding on a thistle flower.
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Ref: 20150911_df3_20150710_1549_068 marbled white butterfly feeding on thistle flower (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 29 Jun 2011
at 09:57 Image of day on 07 Aug 2011
Thistles are an invasive plant that needs to be controlled, but
they certainly attract butterflies.
We have only previously recorded a marbled White butterfly in 2008.
This year a few of them are a delightful sight flitting over the flowers.
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Ref: 20110807_df1_20110629_0957_176 marbled white butterfly feeding on thistle flower (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Jun 2020
at 15:03 Image of day on 26 Jul 2020
A pair of Meadow Brown Butterflies mating on a grass seed head.
There are hundreds of this species about at the moment.
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Image Taken on 16 Jul 2013
at 09:05 Image of day on 05 Sep 2013
The hot weather has produced a show of perhaps 100 of various
'brown' butterflies over our meadow. Here are a pair of Meadow
Brown butterflies mating - you can see the coupling of the
abdomens just below the inverted V where their wings cross at the bottom.
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Ref: 20130905_a77_20130716_0905_019 meadow brown butterflies mating (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Jul 2011
at 11:58 Image of day on 22 Aug 2011
A pair of Meadow Brown butterflies mating artistically positioned
across a grass stem in a shape reminiscent of the lover's Heart.
Butterflies mate 'tail to tail'.
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Ref: 20110822_df1_20110714_1158_058 meadow brown butterflies mating on grass stem (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Jun 2019
at 14:25 Image of day on 12 Aug 2019
A pair of Meadow Brown butterflies flew past us in tandem (coupled at the tail
ends as you see here) and landed on this grass stem to continue their tryst.
We took a few photos and left them to do their 'thing'.
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Ref: 20190812_df5_20190622_1425_218 meadow brown butterflies mating on grass stem 1 of 4 (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 21 Jun 2022
at 12:58 Image of day on 08 Aug 2022
A pair of mating Meadow Brown Butterflies enjoy the highlight of their short lives.
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Ref: 20220808_d72_20220621_1258_014 meadow brown butterflies mating on leaf 3 of 3 (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 30 Jun 2021
at 15:51 Image of day on 05 Aug 2021
A pair of Mating Meadow Brown Butterflies enjoying themselves on an Oxeye Daisy flower.
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Ref: 20210805_d73_20210630_1551_089 meadow brown butterflies mating on oxeye daisy flower(r+mb id@576).jpg
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