Therfield Heath yesterday scores of Chalkhill Blues and Adonis Blues (mostly males) but skittish and reluctant to open wings wide for best photos. Also Clouded Yellow @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social #AdonisBlue #ChalkhillBlue @savebutterflies.bsky.social
The Beauty on the Beast ..
but only if you walk bare 🦶!
#ChalkHillBlue & #CarlineThistle are both specialists found only on #calcareousgrassland
Nature needs more of her land returned to her!
A Blue show like no other I've witnessed.
1000s of #ChalkHillBlue males jousting (females keeping low profiles) w CH males but also Adonis, some tattered, & Common Blue, 2 special moments round my head & shoulders, their wings touching my hair, then down resting
& not a word spoken!
#butterflies
The bells are ringing again in Chalk Hill Blue country despite the drought.
Only one sole #ChalkHillBlue butterfly observed though.
The dry chalky ground needs rain now.
Still #Harebell, #Knapweed, #Dwarfthistle, #Round-headedRampion & many more chalk grassland specialists are ready for insects.
#AdonisBlue & #ChalkHillBlue need #Horseshoevetch
#SmallBlue needs #Kidneyvetch
#BrownArgus & #GreenHairstreak need #CommonRockrose
They all need more #ChalkGrassland & humans need more #Nature, #footpathaccess, #Lesscaraccess & #Fewervisitorcentres please @southdownsnp.bsky.social!!
Night night folks!
Can't take any more of this overload of shite tonight.
Here's a little beauty that makes it all worth while ..
#ChalkhillBlue on #Round-headedRampion #Sussex
I love my #butterflies but this year was a terrible year for us here in the #southeast of #england The #chalkhillblue #lysandracoridon is a tiny #butterfly from the #lycaenidae family. Taken with #canon #ef100f28lis #macro #wildlife #nature #photography #lepidoptera
📍 #dorking #surrey #uk
