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Butterflies Page 26
Image Taken on 09 Jul 2013
at 13:14 Image of day on 21 Aug 2013
The Ringlet butterfly is an attractive brown butterfly.
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Ref: 20130821_da1_20130709_1314_031+20130707_1331_084_ft1 ringlet butterfly in flight with thistle flower (montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Jul 2011
at 14:37 Image of day on 17 Aug 2011
Ringlet butterflies have only been regular visitors for a couple
of years, with more appearing each year. This one likes the
blackberry flowers.
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Ref: 20110817_db1_20110702_1437_065 ringlet butterfly on blackberry flower (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 10 Jul 2020
at 09:28 Image of day on 19 Aug 2020
This is a Ringlet Butterfly sunning itself in the morning sunshine
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Ref: 20200819_df3_20200710_0928_016 ringlet butterfly on conifer(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Jun 2018
at 15:20 Image of day on 09 Aug 2018
A Ringlet butterfly poised delicately on a Hop Sedge frond.
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Ref: 20180809_df3_20180622_1520_009 ringlet butterfly on hop sedge (1st of 2018)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 04 Oct 2009
at 09:18 Image of day on 03 Nov 2009
At 09:20 on a breezy and chilly (11C) early October day this
little beauty unexpectedly fluttered down to this thistle leaf right
to sun itself.
It is a variant of the normal Small Copper butterfly that has
with blue spots on the hind wings.
 blue-spotted form (caeruleopunctata) 11 deg c on ground(r+mb id@576).jpg)
Ref: 20091103_db1_20091004_0918_020 small copper butterfly (lycaena phlaeas) blue-spotted form (caeruleopunctata) 11 deg c on ground(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Aug 2013
at 16:30 Image of day on 28 Sep 2013
Small Copper butterflies have only visited here in the last few
years and provide a welcome splash of colour.
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Ref: 20130928_a77_20130809_1630_030 small copper butterfly feeding on thistle flower (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 19 Jul 2011
at 16:30 Image of day on 31 Aug 2011
The rear underwing of the Small Copper butterfly is different to the other 3
surfaces on each side, undoubtedly to provide camouflage when at rest.
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Ref: 20110831_df1_20110719_1630_214 small copper butterfly feeding on thistle flower showing bottom of rear wing (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Sep 2020
at 13:29 Image of day on 08 Nov 2020
In previous years Small Copper Butterflies have been very much an occasional sighting - this
year there are several at various places in the meadow and along the access track.
This is a female ...
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Ref: 20201108_d73_20200920_1329_043 small copper butterfly female feeding on yarrow flower(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Sep 2020
at 16:17 Image of day on 08 Nov 2020
... and this a male Small Copper Butterfly.
The tip of one wing has been bird pecked or damaged on a thorn or similar.
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Ref: 20201108_d73_20200920_1617_087 small copper butterfly male(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Oct 2010
at 10:40 Image of day on 25 Nov 2010
Out on the bridleway with coats on, this Small Copper butterfly was
sunning itself on the ground. This is the normal form, rather than the
blue-spotted variant we photographed in the same month last year
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Ref: 20101125_df1_20101002_1040_177 small copper butterfly on bridleway near pineham farm (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 02 Aug 2005
First sighting of a Small Copper butterfly here, this one rather
nicely poised on a buttercup flower.
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Ref: 20050802_p20_1020722 small copper butterfly on buttercup flower 2005jul23_14-59-40(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Jul 2011
at 16:12 Image of day on 19 Aug 2011
Second sighting (the first was already bird pecked) of a Small
Copper Butterfly down on a fresh flower in the mostly withering clover.
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Ref: 20110819_df1_20110715_1612_104 small copper butterfly on clover(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 26 Sep 2006
at 16:17 Image of day on 05 Oct 2006
The Small copper butterfly first appeared here briefly last year.
It has returned this year are is here taking nectar from the
poisonous ragwort (presumably the nectar is not poisonous, or the
butterfly is resistant).
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Ref: 20061005_p32_20060926_1617_504 small copper butterfly on ragwort (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Jul 2011
at 16:17 Image of day on 31 Aug 2011
Concentrating on the intended subject it is easy to overlook what
else is going on. The photo being taken was of the Small Copper
Butterfly but we only later noticed also the grasshopper (below
the butterfly's Proboscis) and 5 Red Soldier Beetles, 1 under the
butterfly on the right, and 4 more in the next flower along, one
pair mating as usual.
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Ref: 20110831_df1_20110717_1617_111 small copper butterfly on thistle + grasshopper + 5 common red soldier beetles (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 26 Sep 2020
at 12:49 Image of day on 12 Nov 2020
The weather is turning generally colder, but a bit of sunshine and desperation
to make the most of their last days means butterflies and Dragonflies make
appearances near the middle of the day.
This is a Small Copper Butterfly - you normally see the orange upper wing
but here we see the subtle appearance of just the underside of the rear wing
with touches of the orange showing through.
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Ref: 20201112_df3_20200926_1249_018 small copper butterfly showing underside of rear wing(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 25 Jul 2015
at 12:27 Image of day on 25 Sep 2015
A pair of Small heath butterflies mating on a grass stem.
They often fly about in this configuration - we had to wait for them
to land to get this image.
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Ref: 20150925_df3_20150725_1227_019 small heath butterflies mating(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Jun 2016
at 09:29 Image of day on 07 Aug 2016
Here a Small Heath Butterfly sips his fill.
 feeding on oxeye daisy (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20160807_df3_20160628_0929_027 small heath butterfly (1st of 2016) feeding on oxeye daisy (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Jun 2022
at 09:26 Image of day on 31 Jul 2022
The first sighting of a Small Heath Butterfly this year - choosing a piece
of wind-blown rubbish to perch on :-(
 perched on windblown rubbish(r+mb id@576).jpg)
Ref: 20220731_df3_20220615_0926_479 small heath butterfly (1st of 2022) perched on windblown rubbish(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 18 Jul 2013
at 18:04 Image of day on 04 Sep 2013
Sharing a thistle flower for a moment, this pair of mating Soldier Beetles are
joined for a few seconds by a Small Skipper Butterfly collecting supper.
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Ref: 20130904_df1_20130718_1804_042 small skipper butterfly & mating pair of soldier beetles on thistle flower (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 12 Jul 2015
at 13:07 Image of day on 11 Sep 2015
Here this Skipper, a type of small butterfly, and two different hoverflies
gorge on the nectar of a Thistle flower.
 + marmalade hoverfly on thistle flower (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20150911_df3_20150712_1307_001 small skipper butterfly + hoverfly (syrphus ribesii) + marmalade hoverfly on thistle flower (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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