Small Blue (Cupido minimus) Photographed at Badbury Rings in #Dorset over the weekend.

Small Blue (Cupido minimus) My first encounter of 2025 with this lovely little #butterfly. Photographed at Badbury Rings in #Dorset. Dorset Wildlife Trust BC Dorset 🦋

My highlight of the 2024 butterfly season 🤩 #NewProfilePic

Small Eggar (Eriogaster lanestris) caterpillar 🐛 Formerly quite common, this handsome species is now increasingly scarce and local, due largely to loss of habitat. British Moths Team4Nature - Dorset, UK

The magnificent Stag Beetle, taking off in #slowmo ✈️ - Filmed in my Dorset garden BBC Springwatch

Chrysalis of a Brimstone #butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) 💜 - In my #Dorset garden BBC Springwatch Chris Packham

Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) BBC Springwatch

Clouded Yellow Caterpillar (Colias croceus) Preparing to pupate, note the silk girdle wrapped around the caterpillar. Photographed on Bird's-foot trefoil.

What's better than seeing a fresh Valesina? Seeing two 😍 Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia f.valesina) in Dorset, UK. BBC Springwatch Chris Packham Dorset Wildlife Trust

Swallow-tailed Moth (Ourapteryx sambucaria) Attracted to light in my #Dorset garden. What a stunning moth! British Moths BBC Springwatch

Exploring the French Alps at the moment and this just about sums up the trip 😍 Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius)

Iridescence on the wing of a Great Sooty Satyr butterfly (Satyrus ferula) 💙 - Rimplas, France

Beautiful purple clematis in a Dorset #garden today 💜

One of many Chalk Hill Blue (Lysandra coridon) at Martin Down Nature Reserve in Dorset/Wiltshire today.

Female Chalk Hill Blue (Lysandra coridon) - Dorset/Wiltshire border

Female Chalk Hill Blue (Lysandra coridon) - Dorset/Wilts border

Silver-spotted Skipper (Hesperia comma) in #Dorset today