Swallowtails
It’s unmistakable: a Swallowtail Butterfly: It’s taken us ages to get this close. It’s hot and the butterfly is very active. Here …
It’s unmistakable: a Swallowtail Butterfly: It’s taken us ages to get this close. It’s hot and the butterfly is very active. Here …
For a language with 180,000 words, the English language is seriously deficient when it comes to the natural world. Take the word …
Identifying butterflies is stressful; especially when you’re not in your own country. Everything looks like something else you’re familiar with. I was …
There’s a deep orange butterfly flying quickly across the fields in a park in Rome. It’s a Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas: Nothing …
Here’s my photograph of a Peacock Butterfly, Aglais io, from 2017: Here’s a photograph from my holiday scrapbooks from forty years ago …
It’s late in the year but a little sunshine has brought out the butterflies. There’s a wonderful Speckled Wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria, …
This summer I saw a Red Admiral butterfly in high winds feeding on Westray in Orkney: The scientific name of the Red …
There’s an Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus on the rocks: Then there’s one on the plants: What an incredible colour they are. It’s …
There’s a Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album at the top of this Blackthorn tree. It’s bright orange against the still-green leaves and the …
I’m trying to have a relaxed breakfast but there’s too much to see. I want my Italian coffee and croissant but I …
I’m lying in the grass in a chalk meadow surrounded by the sounds and smells of nature. It’s a sensory delight. There’s …
I’m in a large meadow in East Sussex in the heat watching butterflies. They are a nightmare to photograph in this heat …
“Keep still for a minute!” “Thanks!”
There’s a tiny blue butterfly in the garden in Puglia in Italy. I see it move high in the bush and then …
There are Large White Butterflies in the garden here in Italy. There are males: And there are the spotted females: And there …
I’m in the far south of Italy, in the heel of the boot that makes the Country so much more recognisable than …
It’s still only March and yet there are butterflies in this woodland glade. I can see they are an unnerving sulphur yellow …
Butterflies are very noticeable insects. They have large bright wings and fly during the day. How they escape being eaten by birds …