Another free choice for Day 30 of @europebutterfly's #AprilButterflyMonth, a Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) from @BBOWT's Bernwood Meadows. Often overlooked in favour of larger, more colourful butterflies, I think they have a charm (and cuteness) all of their own!
For Day 30 of @europebutterfly's #AprilButterflyMonth, I've chosen this Long-tailed Blue | Canela Estriada (Lampides boeticus) from #Monfragüe National Park, SW Spain last year as my (first) free butterfly election.
My contribution to Day 28 of #AprilButterflyMonth. The Chequered Skipper is THE species that inspired me to write a book on butterfly life cycles! As ever, an immature stage - a rarely-seen Chequered Skipper pupa - it only took 3 years to find!...
Chequered Skipper photos at the top and below we’ve added Northern Chequered Skipper from Poland (bottom left) and Large Chequered Skipper from Estonia (bottom right). #AprilButterflyMonth
The Comma (Polygonia c-album).
@europebutterfly's butterfly of the day for #AprilButterflyMonth.
This one is from March this year, resting on a dead log at Rock Edge LNR, Oxford.
Here's a photo of the Comma's slightly lighter/brighter cousin the Southern Comma (taken in Greece), along with a pic of it's rather exotic, exquisite & rather elusive cousin the False Comma (taken in Romania)! #AprilButterflyMonth
A selection of Glanville Fritillary photos for #AprilButterflyMonth taken from various places in Europe on our butterfly holidays. #Melitaeacinxia
Eastern Bath White (Pontia edusa) for today’s #AprilButterflyMonth. A pair of pics - upperside from eastern Turkey and underside from Southeast Greece.
The Bath White (Pontia daplidice), butterfly of the day in @europebutterfly's #AprilButterflyMonth.
Photo from Cornalvo Natural Park in Extremadura, SW Spain, September 2018.
#Pontiadaplidice
Southern White Admiral (Limenitis reducta) is today’s #AprilButterflyMonth featured butterfly. Here’s four photos from various tours taken by guests & guides. We particularly like the stealthy one bottom left 😊
A couple of Grizzled Skipper photos taken by guests during some of our many butterfly focused trips. #AprilButterflyMonth
The Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae). Butterfly of the day for @europebutterfly's #AprilButterflyMonth. This one is from last summmer at Bradenham, in the Chilterns.
#Pyrgusmalvae
Chequered Blue (Scolitantides orion) today for #AprilButterflyMonth. We have many photos of this beautiful butterfly on file, here’s a few from our guests taken on holidays with us in various spots around Europe.
The Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) for day 16 of @europebutterfly's #AprilButterflyMonth.
Sadly extinct in my area of the UK, this one is from Gredos, Spain last September.
#Lasiommatamegera
How the Orange-tip Butterflies love our Honesty!
#Lunariaannua #inthegarden #OurWorldIsWorthSaving #butterfly #orangetip #garden #AprilButterflyMonth #Suffolk @BillButterfly #SelfIsolation #lockdown #VitaminN #naturalhealthservice #TwitterNatureCommunity @NatureUK @iNatureUK
Today is the Cardinal (Argynnis pandora) for #AprilButterflyMonth from @europebutterfly. Ours are by guests & guides taken in Greece, Cyprus & France. We're really enjoying seeing & sharing all these butterfly photos & hope you are too. Thanks to BC Europe for the great idea! 👍
A selection of Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) photos from Greece and England for today’s #AprilButterflyMonth from @europebutterfly
... a few days early again. The Brimstone is @europebutterfly's butterfly of the day for #AprilButterflyMonth...
Scarce Swallowtails are a regular sight on many of our tours. Here’s a selection from various places, including France, Bulgaria and Greece. #AprilButterflyMonth And for our UK followers - have a good Easter 🐣
His Imperial Majesty (or the Purple Emperor (Apatura iris) for those with insufficient respect) is @europebutterfly's butterfly of the day in #AprilButterflyMonth. Here's one from Bernwood in 2018. #Apaturairis
My favourite Purple Emperor photo ever has to be of a fully-formed caterpillar inside the egg, an hour from hatching. 23rd August 2013, Savernake Forest, Wilts. #AprilButterflyMonth Day 11 #Apaturairis
@europebutterfly...
Here’s a few Purple Emperor photos from various places in Europe for today’s #AprilButterflyMonth from @europebutterfly. The group shot includes some Lesser Purple Emperors as a bonus too!
For today's #AprilButterflyMonth here is an egg-laying Holly Blue in Greece plus another one at the Asphodel nectar bar with friend Green Hairstreak, also in Greece.
I see I was about a week early with this post for @europebutterfly's #AprilButterflyMonth, but perhaps it's worth another outing?
@savebutterflies @UpperThamesBC
#Celastrinaargiolus #NaturalHealthService
Provence Orange-tip (Anthocharis euphenoides) pair taken on our spring tour of the eastern French Pyrenees. #AprilButterflyMonth
Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) has expanded its distribution hugely in Britain since the 1970s in response to #ClimateChange. Many thanks to thousands of people who contribute to @savebutterflies & @___BRC___ schemes. #AprilButterflyMonth @europebutterfly
Here is our contribution for day 2 of the @europebutterfly #AprilButterflyMonth and we are sharing 3 Large Tortoiseshell photos from various tour locations in recent years, including a nice bit of egg-laying behaviour taken by @martinswarren in Greece. #natureneedednow
For the first day of @europebutterfly's #AprilButterflyMonth, here's a Spanish Festoon (Zerynthia rumina) from Guadalupe, Extremadura in SW Spain taken last May.
#Zerynthiarumina
