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Butterflies Page 16
Image Taken on 16 Jun 2023
at 13:19 Image of day on 13 Aug 2023
A second day photographing flying insects starts with this Meadow Brown Butterfly.
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Ref: 20230813_da1_20230616_1319_065+20230614_1526_044_ft1 meadow brown butterfly in flight with red campion (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 29 Jun 2019
at 15:37 Image of day on 20 Aug 2019
A meadow Brown Butterfly shows us the bottom (left) and top (right) of its wings.
The differing colours flicker in flight and can be momentarily confusing.
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Ref: 20190820_da1_20190629_1537_134+133_ft1 meadow brown butterfly male in flight showing upper & lower sides of wings 2+1 of 2 (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 12 Jul 2020
at 09:12 Image of day on 19 Aug 2020
A Meadow Brown enjoying the same source of Nectar.
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Ref: 20200819_d73_20200712_0912_063 meadow brown butterfly male on ragwort(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 19 Jun 2011
at 10:24 Image of day on 02 Aug 2011
Next frame the ant had landed (sort of).
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Ref: 20110802_df1_20110619_1024_347 meadow brown butterfly with ant on wing + 2 large skippers on single thistle flower (crop of ant)(r+mb id@288).jpg
Image Taken on 29 Jul 2006
at 09:38 Image of day on 11 Aug 2006
Coiled like a watch spring below and left of its head the feeding
proboscis will soon be uncoiled and back in action.
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Ref: 20060811_d10_20060729_0938_005 meadow brown butterfly with coiled proboscis on teasel (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Jun 2021
at 08:33 Image of day on 27 Jun 2021
A few second later the missing antler isn't so clear, but we can just identify
on his flank a hitch-hiking small Orange-tip Butterfly!
 in early morning sunlight + orange tip butterfly on flank(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20210627_bu7_20210601_0833_054 muntjac reeves deer male (1 antler) in early morning sunlight + orange tip butterfly on flank(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 13 Mar 2021
at 14:01 Image of day on 09 Apr 2021
This male Reeve's Muntjac Deer is far from tolerant of humans.
This brief sighting was followed by an unhurried departure, but not spotted again.
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Ref: 20210409_df3_20210313_1401_029 muntjac reeves deer male among sprouting daffodils at east end of butterfly alley(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Apr 2022
at 09:47 Image of day on 10 May 2022
One of the male Reeves' Muntjac Deer looks back at the photographer
along 'Butterfly Alley' - a sun drenched path between a low hedge (left)
and a wall of conifers on the right.
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Ref: 20220510_df3_20220409_0947_222 muntjac reeves deer male looking back down butterfly alley(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 12 Apr 2020
at 16:17 Image of day on 01 May 2020
Orange-tip Butterflies males fruitlessly looking for females, not yet emerged
from their over-wintered chrysalises, are now rewarded with a female to entice.
Here are 4 moments from an attempted seduction.
The male has the orange tips, but the female doesn't. They both have that wonderful
green and white marbling under the wing.
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Ref: 20200501_d73_20200412_1617_154+1618_161+175+1620_191 orang-tip butterfly pair courting (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Apr 2021
at 16:06 Image of day on 12 May 2021
Normally we see female Orange-tip Butterflies a week or two after the first see the males,
but this year we saw first emergence at the same time. The females don't have the
orange tip, but still have the delicate green tracery under the wing that you can
JUST see showing through as a green haze on the rear wings. The Green tracery
is present on the males as well but the picture of the male above wasn't
optimised to show it.
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Ref: 20210512_df3_20210417_1606_092 orange tip butterfly female (1st of 2021)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 29 May 2008
at 12:08 Image of day on 02 Jun 2008
This is an orange-tip butterfly - the female has no orange tip but the
beautiful green and white mottled underwing is the giveaway.
Haven't seen a male for a week or two.
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Ref: 20080602_dc1_20080529_1208_114 orange tip butterfly female on red campion (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Jun 2021
at 11:31 Image of day on 25 Jun 2021
Another flyby by this male Orange-tip butterfly shows you the underside
of the insect including the intricate green lacework that provides
disguise (on both sexes) when the wings are closed.
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Ref: 20210625_da1_20210601_1131_060+1232_085_ft1 orange tip butterfly male in flight with garlic mustard flowers (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 11 May 2009
at 13:49 Image of day on 03 Jun 2009
Wow - an orange tip actually stopped flying long enough to get a pic 'in the field'!
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Ref: 20090603_db1_20090511_1349_060 orange tip butterfly male on teasel leaf(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 16 May 2016
at 10:36 Image of day on 25 Jun 2016
A male Orange Tip butterfly perched on some fresh Blackberry leaves.
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Ref: 20160625_df3_20160516_1036_016 orange tip butterfly male perched on blackberry leaf (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 19 May 2023
at 13:02 Image of day on 07 Jul 2023
At last we get to see a female Orange-tip Butterfly, here on the right of the male.
They share the wonderful intricate green tracery on the underside of the wing.
 and female feeding on red campion (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20230707_d72_20230519_1302_415+df3_20230521_1615_458 orange-=tip butterfly male (left) and female feeding on red campion (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Apr 2011
at 16:12 Image of day on 22 May 2011
A pair of orange tip butterflies spent a couple of minutes
fluttering round each other (very hard to photo) and then the
female landed on the grass path and the male made his intentions
excitably clear. Here one moment from the action - they flew off
together & we lost sight of them in the undergrowth.
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Ref: 20110522_df1_20110427_1612_092 pair of orange-tip butterflies courting 21 of 35 (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Apr 2020
at 12:52 Image of day on 01 May 2020
2 days later presumably a different couple of Orange-tip Butterfly 'getting to know each other'.
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Ref: 20200501_df3_20200414_1252_047+1251_027 orange-tip butterflies courting on blackberry leaves (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Apr 2020
at 14:55 Image of day on 01 May 2020
All this chasing girls is hard work.
Here a male Orange-tip Butterfly refuels on what we think is a Ground Ivy flower.
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Ref: 20200501_df3_20200414_1455_060 orange-tip butterfly feeding on ground ivy flower(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Apr 2019
at 13:03 Image of day on 18 May 2019
We caught another male Orange-tip Butterfly on this day, so took the opportunity
to show you female (left) and male Orange-tip Butterflies, so you can compare.
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Ref: 20190518_da1_20190422_1303_088+1319_121_ft1 orange-tip butterfly female & male in flight (montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 18 May 2014
at 14:18 Image of day on 16 Jul 2014
Top right is the Male Orange-tip butterfly, together with an
image of the female and a flowering Garlic Mustard - one of their
favourite plants for egg laying which we encourage down our
trackway edge. We would love to have caught this setup 'for real'
but it's hard enough getting a decent image of one insect in
flight at a time, so this is a montage of 3 images to illustrate
what we see in the wild.
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Ref: 20140716_da1_20140518_1418_265+1540_338+1529+332_ft1 orange-tip butterfly female & male in flight with garlic mustard (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
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