Just as you think the butterfly season is coming to an end, some second generation individuals appear. I was very … More
Tag: Butterflies
Photographs and accounts of butterflies from around the world
Courting brimstones: wing walking
Courtship in pierid butterflies, such as brimstones, is usually fairly brief, but can nevertheless, feature some interesting interactions. I happened … More
Brimstones in the sun: thermoregulation
Whilst I was taking photographs of these beautiful Brimstone butterflies (Gonepteryx rhamni) nectaring on the little pink flower-pots of Bell … More
Which way up to read The Map?
It has been suggested that the Common Map butterfly (Cyrestis thyodamas) – also called the Oriental Map – relies for its … More
Tasting with your feet! Butterfly tarsi.
Red Admirals love apples! Or more precisely, they like rotten apples and other wind-fallen or over-ripe fruit which has sat … More
Denizens of the dappled forest: butterflies
Last October (2017) I had the pleasure of spending a few days in a delightful bungalow at Malee’e Nature Lovers Bungalows; a … More
Leaf butterfly: caught in the net!
When I first came across this large spider, I wondered what it was doing with a piece of old leaf. … More
Swallowtails in Galicia: Subspecies and generations
Last summer I made a number of visits to the Hotel Semáforo de Bares, an attractive location in NW Spain, … More
Asian hornets fighting over an apple
Asian hornets (Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836) are an invasive species from China which have recently become very abundant in Galicia in Spain … More
Rock (and roll!) Grayling
The great Dutch biologist Niko Tinbergen, first described the highly stereotypic courtship behaviour of the Grayling, Hipparchia semele (Linnaeus 1758), a … More
