My wife
and I had a trip to Bishop Middleham and Wingate quarries on the 16th
(she preferred the latter) primarily for the Marbled White butterflies at
Wingate. The weather was hot and sunny and the butterflies were reluctant to
settle, the ones that did were mainly female. I knew it was late in the season but
I still wanted to see if there were any Northern and Brown Argus at Bishop
Middleham quarry. There were a few still around as you can see below however if
I have the identification wrong, please let me know.
Female
Marbled White butterfly
Male
Marbled White
Female
Marbled White butterfly
Male
Marbled White
Small
Heath butterfly
How this
snail got into this position on this slender bit of grass I will never know.
Looking at
the markings on the underside of the wing I think this is a Northern Brown
Argus.
Once again
looking at the markings this is a Brown Argus and it appears to be laying eggs.
As I mentioned in a previous Blog I was speaking to a man about these
butterflies and this seems to go against what he said.
Is the fly
checking out the Speckled Wood butterfly or is it the other way around?
Six-spot
Burnet Moth.
When we
were kids, we called these Hairy Caterpillars.
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