Clouded Yellow seen at Southbourne today, first sighting locally for 2025 😀 BC Dorset 🦋 Dorset Wildlife Spot

☀️ 30c Fantastic morning at Riserva orientata palude di Casalbeltrame northern Italy. A first for me, Large Copper - Lycaena dispar plus lots of wetland wildlife 😎 🇮🇹 BC Europe

☀️ Alpine Heath - Coenonympha gardetta, Switzerland, pics taken a few days ago, the one on the right taken at high altitude, I believe this is the grey high Alpine form 😀 BC Europe

Never thought I'd see a Brown Hairstreak in June, in the UK ... Nonetheless, I saw a fresh male at Knepp today... As Fred Trueman used to say on Test Match Special, " I doan't know what's going off out there anymore.."

☀️ 34c Stopped for breif break at a sweltering northern French motorway services yesterday. Lovely to see a fresh Scarce Swallowtail, avidly nectaring 😎 BC Europe

An early chalkhill blue #butterfly photo today National Trust Sharpenhoe Clappers Chilterns National Landscape Butterfly Conservation 🦋

☀️ A few 2nd brood Small Copper emerging on the overcliff at Southbourne this morning 😀 BC Dorset 🦋 Dorset Wildlife Spot

Sorting through some pics from recent trip to northern Italy. Not sure on ID of this #Dragonfly from a wetland area, any help gratefully receive.🤔 The Insect World Community

This female Amanda's Blue is a beauty 🦋

☀️ Starting to see the dark summer form of Small Copper on Southbourne Seafront. Their occurrence varies. Maybe the hot summer this year will increase the number 🤔 Dorset Wildlife Spot BC Dorset 🦋

Look what turned up on the heath today — a Green Hairstreak butterfly! 💚With its striking emerald-green wings and quick, darting flight, this little beauty is a real heathland specialist and a joy to spot here at RSPB Arne. image credit David Morris (rspb-images.com)

Silver-spotted Skipper seen at Perham Down yesterday.. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Wiltshire BC

On a mud-puddling site hundreds or even thousands of butterflies can gather for minerals (mostly males). During 40 years of butterflying I have see quite a few, but this site in SE France can now be added. Mostly Chalkhill Blue (P coridon).

Several sightings of Clouded Yellows along South Coastal counties recently. 😀

This is an historic photo. Congratulations to William Brame (who took the photo) for realising this was a different white butterfly. Now confirmed by Chris van Swaay as a Southern Small White - the first seen in England. As it is a female let's hope it has been laying eggs.

BC Suffolk Branch Chris van Swaay Had this individual on Hartlepool Headland 1st July during a major movement of Large & Small Whites. ID software seems quite happy its mannii, as did Guy Padfield. Would be interested in a second opinion.

☀️ 21c - A few 🦋 highlights from this mornings walk along Southbourne Seafront. 😎

Queen of Spain Fritillary at Ranscombe Farm, Kent - superbly relocated at 14:15 today, by Rafael Mitchell at the end of a four-hour search. Cheers fella! Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London Kent Field Club Plantlife #nature #butterflies

☀️ Sweltering 32c at an almost deserted BC Dorset 🦋 Alners Gorse lunchtime. 2 Clouded Yellows seen including this lovely lemon female. ID given by some for this form as f.helicina, f.helice being grey/white. The British Nature Guide Dorset Wildlife Spot

Good views of a Queen of Spain Fritillary at Ranscombe this morning - also Clouded Yellow and Painted Lady.