Amelia's photos with the keyword: Butterfly

sc Peacock butterfly on Buddleia

Green-veined White on Mallow

10 Jul 2021 43 28 345
Green-veined White - Pieris napi

Speckled Wood butterfly

Comma butterfly

20 Sep 2018 41 21 586
I think this is the last of summer's pleasures.

Nature Walk Along the Montgomery Canal at Maesbury…

28 Apr 2019 30 23 603
Red Campion. Silene dioica Orange Tip Butterflies. Anthocharis cardamines Seed Head of Coltsfoot. Tussilago farfara.

Sipping nectar

03 Aug 2019 30 26 469
This week in SSC: Let's use a "Shallow Depth of Field". Along a narrow pathway separated by a barbed wire fence from a country road, this was an ideal place to use a shallow depth of field photo. The road and fence almost disappear.

Lunch time

15 Jun 2020 34 16 352
The Small Tortoiseshell is among the most well-known butterflies in Britain and Ireland. The caterpillars feed on the leaves of nettles.

Ringlet butterfly playing hide and seek in the rag…

Small Skipper on Knapweed. Thymelicus sylvestris…

20 Jul 2020 39 20 306
Or possibly the Essex Skipper, Thymelicus lineola These little butterflies were ubiquitous here, flitting around in the tall grasses and mostly sipping nectar from hard-heads, Centaurea / knapweed..

Small Skipper on Knapweed. Thymelicus sylvestris…

20 Jul 2020 16 5 264
Or possibly the Essex Skipper, Thymelicus lineola. These little butterflies were ubiquitous here, flitting around in the tall grasses and mostly sipping nectar from hard-heads, Centaurea / knapweed..

Small tortoishell on Alfalfa

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) on Verbena bonariens…

26 Aug 2019 38 25 372
Painted Lady (underwing). I shall be away for a few days and will catch up with you all later.

Pieris rapae on Toadflax

Brown Argus feeding on Agapanthus nectar

31 Jul 2018 46 29 1050
Aricia agestis is a very small butterfly with a wing span of only 25 - 31mm. The upper-wings are brown with orange spots on the wing edges. I didn't manage to get a good photo of this.